Social Security is next to become a true Welfare Program

Need senior's support for your atrocious healthcare overhaul? Want more people dependent on the government? Want to secure the democrat party's power for years to come by buying votes through a massive expansion of government hand-outs? How about giving seniors $250 checks for "increased cost of living expenses" (nevermind that the recession has done away with these alleged increases but you're a democrat. facts don't matter.) Oh, and the the House Republicans should be ashamed for pandering and going along with this.

From The Heritage foundation:
Since Social Security recipients will get no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) next year, President Obama wants to give each of them $250, a move supported in principle by the Republican House and Senate leadership. However, this move is not only unjustified; it makes a fundamental change to Social Security's structure and starts the process of converting the program from an earned benefit funded by a worker's own contributions to a welfare program.