The good news is that people on social security are getting their first raise in three years – 3.6%

The bad news is that their Medicare premium will rise double digits.

Do the math.

And this news comes on the same exact day that Neiman Marcus releases their Christmas Catalog with 9 “Ultimate” gifts.  And here I was, counting on my COLA to buy Bubba a $75,000 yurt.

I dunno, $75,000 for a yurt kinda defeats the purpose of a yurt.  The dancing fountains are kinda cool, but we already have one of those changing color spurt things in our hot tub, which is the redneck version of dancing fountains.  And I paid a helluva lost less than $1.5 million for it.

And for your Christmas shopping convenience, I do not have a Ferrari FF that I can drive 200 miles per hour over to the Target.  That seems such a shame because you never now when you might have a Target emergency.