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[TWINMAMA]

<p>Agreed, MiamiDAP!</p>

[HImom]

<p>I know that some folks have said they have gotten good quotes from AAA for insurance–our experience was totally the opposite. We had a friend who was hired by AARP to lobby with & for them. He lasted only about 1-2 months because his idea was about building coalitions & partnerships, seeking common ground. Their idea was their agenda and ONLY their agenda. It was a pity because I was excited about the possibility of working with them while he was there.</p>

[LasMa]

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There is no “cut” – there is a reduction of future growth. (If you expected a 3% cost of living increase in your salary for the coming year, and your employer decided that they could only afford a 2% increase - you would get less from your paycheck than you had hoped, but it still would be more than you had been getting before and it wouldn’t be the same as a pay cut)

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<p>If cost-of-living inflation is 3% and you only get a 2% cost-of-living raise, then in real terms, you got a pay cut. Even though there’s more money in your paycheck, you can’t buy as much. </p>

<p>Health care inflation is 3 times the rate of overall consumer inflation. If spending on health care doesn’t keep up with inflation, then in real terms, people will get a cut in health care. Even though there’s more money in the system, it buys less.</p>

[jym626]

<p>Well now this is interesting [Feds</a> Cut Social Security to Retirees Who Owe Student Debt - DailyFinance](<a href=“Stock Portfolio & Tracker - Yahoo Finance”>Stock Portfolio & Tracker - Yahoo Finance)

While most attention in the ongoing student debt crisis narrative has focused on new graduates, it turns out the federal government has been quietly targeting a different group of debtors: retirees.</p>

<p>The Treasury Department has been withholding as much as 15 percent of Social Security benefits from "a rapidly growing number of Social Security recipients who have fallen behind on federal student loans

I did not know htat.</p>