American retirees will feel this Dummkopf Trumpf/Bibi Netanyahu-created inflation harder.

"Inflation ticked up in recent months, resulting in a 2.8% COLA for 2026 for people receiving Social Security and SSI payments. SSA estimated that the average retirement benefit would rise by about $56 a month, from $2,015 to $2,071, starting with payments that began going out in January 2026. That sounds like a meaningful boost - until you look at what Medicare is taking back simultaneously.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that the standard monthly premium for Medicare Part B, which covers doctor visits and other outpatient care, climbed in January from $185 to $202.90, a 9.7% increase. That effectively reduced the increase to the average Social Security check in 2026 from $56 to $38.10, after subtracting the Part B increase of $17.90 from the 2026 COLA raise. In that scenario, the Part B increase consumed almost 32% of the monthly increase. For retirees on fixed incomes, a real-dollar gain that shrinks by nearly a third before it even hits a bank account is far from the relief the headline number implies."

These are financial problems that US and Israeli mega-oligarchs, as well as the good-for-nothing members of the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF), will never have to deal with.

Don't worry, inflation, poverty, terrible healthcare, malnutrition, five dollars a gallon for diesel gas, hospital closures, or homelessness won't affect the fabulously wealthy oligarchs who are enjoying Lobster Thermidor or finely-aged Tenderloin Steaks, all guzzled down with Dom Perignon.

Hi Clownshack:

What's worse? The idiot in the White House or the imbeciles that voted for him?

What a country we have now.