It seems that old folks just can’t catch a break.

Since the economy crashed there was not much, well actually any, increase in consumer prices during the current year and as a result those on Social Security will not get any COLA in 2010.

Now before anyone goes screeching “old folks don’t need soda pop, anyhow”, the COLA to which I am referring is the “Cost Of Living Allowance”, which those on Social Security have received every year since back in the 1970′s.

Supposedly the cost of living has actually decreased during 2009 and that makes some sense when one considers all the foreclosures and folks living on the streets and under bridges as a result of the recession or depression if you are one of those living on the street/under the bridge.

At least the politicians are not talking about taking back the COLA that old folks received last year and some are even talking about tossing the old folks a bone in the form of a $250 check courtesy of Uncle Sam, aka the taxpayers.

Now I don’t see anything wrong with charity.

After all, the bankers, Wall Street fat cats and others managed to suck hundreds of billions of dollars from the collective tit of taxpayers, so why not let the old folks have a nipple to suck on too?

But come on…

I mean the fat cats received at least a trillion dollars from the tax payers and then came back for more.

The proposal to give a lousy $250 to the 57 million Social Security recipients, those receiving veterans or disability benefits, railroad retirees, and retired public employees who don’t receive Social Security reportedly amounts to a total of $13 billion tax payer dollars.

Oh well, it won’t be the first time old folks and the disabled have had to survive on the crumbs from the table of the fat cats…