Obama urges increase in Social Security benefits

Posted by | June 1, 2016 21:00 | Filed under: Good News Politics


President Obama urged an increase in Social Security benefits for the elderly Wednesday.

“It is time we finally made Social Security more generous and increase the benefits so that today’s retirees and future generations get the dignified retirement that they have earned,” Obama said in Elkhart, Indiana, during a speech in which he spoke against Republican economic policies.

Obama has no specific proposal in mind for a benefits increase, said a White House official who asked for anonymity. Obama didn’t say in his speech how much he wants to raise benefit levels or offer a timetable.

With the shift, the president joins likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who embraced the idea of expanding Social Security earlier this year, and her challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a longtime champion of expanding the program. Obama’s remarks nudge the party toward a more liberal agenda and represent a nod to Sanders and his supporters.

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16 responses to Obama urges increase in Social Security benefits

  1. Budda June 1st, 2016 at 21:13

    Good move

    • granpa.usthai June 1st, 2016 at 22:00

      :!:!:!:!:!

    • whatthe46 June 2nd, 2016 at 01:50

      it is. and with the repukes pitching another hissy fit, i’m all the happy.

  2. Aunt Pee June 1st, 2016 at 22:03

    Yes, please! (I’m a housebound senior citizen on Social Security.)

    • whatthe46 June 2nd, 2016 at 01:31

      hello Aunt, well i’m not gonna say the ending.

  3. granpa.usthai June 1st, 2016 at 22:11

    this will generate many more billions of dollars circulating inside the US economy instead of finding their way into several personal offshore bank accounts. I would like to appeal to those on SS to avoid buying TRUMP JUNK. While it may temporarily boost merchants who are currently hocking the stuff off, all the TRUMP JUNK IMPORTS have and are taking away jobs from the USA while allowing little insecure money-grubbers to exploit human suffering in other nations at exceedingly great profits for their offshore bank accounts (which add absolutely nothing to the USA economy that they already pay very little if anything into).

    keep america great

    BAN TRUMP JUNK & IMPORTS

    • Larry Schmitt June 2nd, 2016 at 08:21

      I think most SS beneficiaries can’t afford most Trump Junk anyway. They tend to buy clothes at Ross or TJ Max.

      • Jindalisajoke June 2nd, 2016 at 08:58

        Most of the people i know on social security would love to shop Ross or TJ Maxx but tend to shop goodwill or other thrift stores in order to have money for food & medication.

        • Marilynn Reeves June 2nd, 2016 at 14:13

          Thank you for the truth.

      • Marilynn Reeves June 2nd, 2016 at 14:12

        No Walmart, Dollar General and Goodwill or other Thrift stores.

  4. The Original Just Me June 2nd, 2016 at 02:44

    If it will make the Right Wing Nut Jobs CRAZY, then I’m all for it.

    • whatthe46 June 2nd, 2016 at 02:59

      hello O, and yes, if it drives them CRAZY, then i’m all for it too.

  5. Jindalisajoke June 2nd, 2016 at 08:56

    Thank YOu President Obama for thinking of our seniors & disabled please remove the cap from Social Security that is one way of increasing it and keeping it solvent for decades to come.

  6. Um Cara June 2nd, 2016 at 10:55

    President Obama, feeling the Bern!

  7. oldfart June 2nd, 2016 at 11:34

    Read…,
    Seniors are a huge voting block.
    Babyboomers will be retiring in massive numbers.
    Social security funds has been raided for many years by both parties.
    “COLAS” are only allowed for inflation…no inflation, no increases.
    Any guesses what factors our government considers to be NOT inflation ?
    MIllion/billionaires do not require Social Security but pay into the same system.
    Remove the cap and pay a fair share.
    The need to overhaul this system is long overdue.
    republicans will fight tooth and nail to never allow it to happen.
    Rock the “down ballot vote”.

  8. Warman1138 June 2nd, 2016 at 15:04

    About time, HOORAY!

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