"Obama's Hypocrisy!"

Have any of you worked for a company that was having a bad year and you received no annual increase in your salary? I worked for a very large corporation in Chicago for many years. Over the course of my employment, the company fell on some hard times; it had its first layoff since its inception while I worked there. I remember twice during my tenure that we received no yearly increase; this was across the board, including supervisors and executives. Everybody bit the bullet during those rough patches. It is never easy to accept the fact that you aren't going to get that expected raise; food, fuel, educational cost for your children, all these things go up every year. When your salary doesn't go up, you are going to have to make some hard decisions.

I am now retired; I make a little "pin money" working as a crossing guard at our local elementary school. I like my little job; the kids are all cute and fun, and the people at the school are all friendly and helpful. I have been on Social Security for two plus years. Many of my friends have been on Social Security much longer than I. There has been no cost of living increase for the last two years; now, the Barack Obama administration has decided to freeze Social Security for three more years. The budget is busting, and we must all make sacrifices, even us "old folks".

Oddly, there are some folks who aren't making those "tough decisions" as much as fixed income seniors. Here are some people whose names you may not know, but you are paying their salaries: Matthew Vogel, assistant to Barack Obama, just got his annual increase from $71,400 to $130,500; Heather Zichal, assistant to Barack Obama, just got an increase from $100,000 to $140,000; Kevin Lewis, African American media advisor, just got an increase from$42,000 to $78,000! THIS IS A PARTIAL LIST!! This entire list shows increases from 17% to 83% in salaries to Washington "public servants". I guess they aren't having as much "bad luck" as the rest of us!

Americans aren't afraid of some "belt tightening" during a bad time; but this obvious disparity of treatment for Washington insiders is unconscionable and hypocritical on the part of the Barack Obama administration. Every day, we go to the grocery store or filling station and face a new challenge as to how we will make ends meet, and Barack Obama makes sure his political machine gets "their end " of public money!

America, we should not turn a blind eye to this "unscrupulous and unethical" practice by the Obama administration. If you are over 62,you should remember this action next November; if you are planning to get older than 62 some time in your life, you should remember this next November. If you don't want to enforce hypocrisy, you need to remember this next November! I'm sure happy everybody doesn't have to suffer from America's "BAD LUCK"!