TheWiseOldFart

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Republicans hate older Americans, including their own families. It is far more important to increase the bloated bank accounts of our nation’s 813 billionaires than to care for our elderly. What is “COLA?” This is the annual adjustment to Social Security checks, allegedly to account for inflation, which is a greater threat to seniors than any other group. Like my wife and I, our Social Security checks account for all or most of our monthly income. The increase is rarely enough to keep our quality of living consistent. However, Trump and his latest fascist appointee want to eliminate the two percent increase we receive each year, although our grocery store bill is 60 percent higher than it was a year ago. E.J. Antoni, who comes from the fascist extremist group, the Heritage Foundation, calls our annual increase a "Ponzi scheme." Obviously, he has no understanding how Social Security is funded or how it was intended to work. Social Security has been ba...