Mongo only pawn . . . in game of life.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year.

The White House put the cost at $13 billion.

The Social Security Administration is scheduled to announce Thursday that there will be no cost of living increase next year. By law, increases are pegged to inflation, which has been negative this year.

It would mark the first year without an increase in Social Security payments since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975.

via Obama calls for $250 payments to seniors.

I feel like the AFLAC duck sometimes…in the commercial with Yogi Berra where old Yogi says that “they’ll give you cash, which is the same as money”. The duck’s expression is priceless. If you’ve not seen the commercial, then imagining a duck having an “expression” is sort of implausible….other than just plain old “duck in repose” that is. Ducks pretty much looking the same no matter the occasion and all. Not the AFLAC duck, though. Trust me, if you’ve not seen it, you should go youtube it or something.

So yeah, Obama’s calling it square by giving seniors $250 in lieu of a cost of living increase next year. And he wonders why all us young folk are nervous about our own retirements. Like that scene in Blazing Saddles where Governor Lepetomane has Hedley Lamarr hand out paddle ball games to his cabinet: “Why don’t you give these out to some of the boys in lieu of pay?”

It gets better by the day in Obamatown, doesn’t it?