As a Senior Citizen on fixed income, I cannot afford to have Social Security and/or Medicare funds cut. Our schools need necessary funding in order to prepare our children for the future... These cuts will serously affect the children and the elderly. STOP THESE CUTS!

For many retirees this would mean critical cuts to benefits that cover medicine, food, and other daily necessities.

Senior citizens have suffered enough in trying to fix the economy.

Social Security is the sole source of income for me as wall as many others. Please don't allow congress to put SS and Medicare on the chopping block. I have worked for a living since I was 15 years old and have paid into Medicare and SS as long as they have been there. I can no longer work. SS is my sole source of income. I worked for it, paid into it and need it and I need it to not be compromised. I have been without healthcare insurance for almost 10 years. I know the rich folks and the big corporations can afford more taxes. We in the middle class can not. Please don't compromise us in the middle class.

Ask the President not to cut social security benefits, and not to agree to keep some of the Bush tax benefits for the wealthy.

These Social Security cuts will affect myself and so many other people like me and I am asking the President and Congress to oppose this movement on the broad side forever. People work their whole life and if they get to receive their Social Security benefits after 30 or more years of hard work. This is such a heart breaking feeling to many of us in this situation because benefits for Congressional folks is a no brainer. They are able to retire almost at a bat of an eye and God only knows what else are the benefits they get that is not mentioned or said. It is really sad that no one really cares about other people today and especially the ones that made it to the top. Well, we all can not make it to the top some one has to be at the bottom. Please make it better for us as a whole. Politicals already have their money in place and have nothing to worry about as far as income, but on the other hand we do. I hope someone cares. Please try to be good to other people, even if you don't know them. We get stuck sometimes on people we know and the people you don't know we have a good heart too. Merry Christmas to All!!

Social Security is not the place to take money to make up for the Fiscal Cliff or the deficit.

Those of us who have paid our entire lives into Social Security should not have our Social Security used as a bargaining chip with the Republicans. Leave the Social Security account alone. Tax the rich once and for all. If the Republicans are not open for ANY negotiation, it's time to get some other parties started in our government, like the other countries. We in the middle class need the Social Security benefits to survive. Float bonds, high interest Treasury Bills, other investments, and force taxes for the rich. Be creative and find other means and bring back employment to this country.

I am an unemployed 56-year-old who can not find a job, which forces me to use my 401K money to pay my mortgage. Cutting social security will be devasting when I do retire. But my vote still counts.

This week President Obama made an offer to Republican John Boehner to cut Social Security benefits and leave in place some of the Bush tax cuts for the top 2%. The cuts in Social Security are opposed by an overwhelming majority of SignOn.org members and would amount to "a cut of more than 5 percent and more as the years go by." For many retirees this would mean critical cuts to benefits that cover medicine, food, and other daily necessities. The good news is that many senators, including Senate Leader Harry Reid, have promised to oppose Social Security cuts in any deficit reduction package. If they hear from enough of their constituents, we can still get the Senate to reject this proposal and protect Social Security.

Congress has access to Social Security funds by allowing the SSA to buy treasury bonds and securities and using our money to balance the budget. Social Security and medicare should not be cut and Congress must be denied access to Social Security funds.

Social Security Insurance should not be in any budget or deficit discussion, because being independently funded, it doesn't add one penny to the national deficit. It is too vital for too many citizens to be toyed with by the GOP or spineless Democrats in a game of political chicken. Tell Congress and the President to keep their hands off of Social Security.