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Hilarious sentence of the day: ‘For some, a loss of Social Security income could mean a loss of independence’

July 30, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

CNN:

If the Obama administration does withhold some or all of the 55 million Social Security payments set to go out in August, several recipients said they will ask their banks to let them delay their mortgage payments.

How the **** do you have a mortgage without a job?

Oh noze — life may revert to pre-1940s reality!!

But if he stops receiving his $1,400 Social Security check, he doesn’t know how he’ll be able to pay the rent in coming months. That means he’d have to move in with his daughter.

“It would be a sorry day if it happens,” said Tanner. (…)

She and her husband have enough savings to get by for a month. But if they don’t get their September Social Security check, they’ll have to ask their children for help paying for prescriptions and car insurance.

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