I've been reading the comments on this and I think I agree with most of them if not all of them.  I really think the people in the government should read them also.  Maybe they will start to wake up.

If the cost of living formula is so good, lets put all of the government on minimum wages with cost of living increases for them  acccording to their way of thinking and their formula as is or the new one they want to shove down our throats.

Sounds like a lot of states with a lot of food and energy production can make a very strong point to the person in the whitehouse.

The politicians have raped the SS fund.  The "Borrowed from the fund" , but never paid it back  To my way of thinking they are a bunch of thieves.

I can remember when my mother shopped J C Penney, Wards, & Sears for our school clothes and shoes.  They were of good materials and reasonably priced for people living in the dirty 30's trying to raise a family and living paycheck to paycheck.  If stores like J C Penney would get back to the basics that John Cash ...more

I think they should read the old newspapers.  Might be something very interesting about the past.  After all we are all part of history sooner or later.

If our do nothing congress really wanted to do something about social security, they would make the government put back all of the money stolen from the social security fund and make it untouchable in the future except for social security paymnents.  Then the congress should put the members of congress on the same st...more

J C Penney was the department store for the poor during the dirty 30's and early 40's.  When John Cash was alive it catered to the people that had a very hard time buying school clothes for their kids and Penneys' prices were affordable for familes during hard times.  It looks like those hard times are back again.  I...more

Too bad the feds cannot see beyond their noses.  The economy is in the dump!  I ran out of savings 2 years ago thanks to the depression that they call a recession.  Why can't they admit it?