(Letter to the Editor - Graphic Illustration/MetroCreativeConnection)

With inflation at a 41-year high, seniors are bearing the brunt of the hardship and Congress and the Biden administration aren’t listening.

Instead, Congress gave the Ukraine another $45 billion in aid and Biden proposed a minimum of $1.2 trillion spending on climate change while pushing Social Security and 65 million citizens toward bankruptcy. Senior citizens on fixed incomes are most affected by skyrocketing inflation and are the only group being ignored in Washington.

Many senior citizens are physically unable to work. Even those who do work can’t change careers to adapt to ever-worsening conditions. Congress is spending money on everything except seniors and retirees.

President Biden’s multi-trillion dollar “Build Back Better” program bent over backwards to send taxpayers’ money to illegal aliens while ignoring the needs of Social Security beneficiaries.

Many illegal aliens receive free food, housing and social services. But senior citizens who have paid into Social Security for their entire lives with the promise that when retired they would receive their full benefits, get nothing.

Now, with the actual value of Social Security being eaten away by runaway inflation, being made worse by out-of-control spending, Congress has the money for special interest friends while ignoring legislating a long-term solution to keep the Social Security trust fund solvent.

Congress bails out big business like banks, passes pork-laden bills for special interests and provides money for illegal aliens, sends another $45 billion to Ukraine, while seniors and retirees get zero.

The Senior Citizens Association of America is petitioning Congress to provide senior citizens a $1,400 stimulus payment to offset rising costs due to inflation. Everyone should contact their Washington representatives and pressure them to pass a $1,400 stimulus to seniors.

My source of information for this letter is the Senior Citizens Association of America.

Biden was on the TV news crowing about the success of his Bidenomics policies. While gasoline prices are again on the rise, household utility prices are going through the roof, etc. Biden alleges Bidenomics are working. Biden should define how things would be if Bidenomics were an utter disaster.

Steve Wolverton

Parkersburg