The Social Security Trust Fund is solvent and only problematic when political leaders see the money and want to use it. This was true of Lyndon B. Johnson, for his war in Southeast Asia, and in 1980 President Reagan and the democratic congress decided to tax the benefits. The COLA, initated in 1975 was used as a means to cope with out of control inflation, but has been kept until it's recent use in the "fiscal cliff" talks.. The SSI program must be taken off the table while the fiscal cliff is under discussion. Any revision of the program needs a concentrated analysis and review that guarantees any contributions to the SSI funds are put in a "locked box" for future generations. To use SSLI as a chip to leverage free income for the top 2% is a further deterioration for the life of older Americans. Remember SSI funds are used to to make Medicare payments and come out of the individuals monthly supplements. Medicare's fee didn't freeze, why keep taking money away from social security recipients. If you freeze the supplement, then make it tax free again.

My husband and I are both 75, we have very small pensions from our previous jobs, but depend on our ss and medicare for living expenses, I would like to see all politians give up part of their income and see how that feels, if you all had to depend on ss, instead of your fat paychecks, and your cushy pensions, maybe, just maybe you can understand those of us who don't get what you do.

The party of greed lost. Act accordingly.

There are probably many wealthy Americans who don't need their Social Security benefits to supplement their income. Maybe we should ask them to forfeit at least some if not all of their benefits to help the economy. For those who need them or is their only source of income, nothing should be taken away. If anything some of the money saved by those forfeiting should go to increase the benefits for those below the poverty level to a level that will help them improve their situations. I have a neighbor who only receives about $800 a month in SS benefits only because she was a housewife and mother most of her life and didn't have much of an employment history. She suffers monthly trying to figure out how she's going to survive and is not even eligible for food stamps because a portion of her income comes from the state supplement to her SS. Let's level the playing field and help those who really need it.

Sign this petition against the cutting of Social Security!!!

we put into ss for our later years & you just give it to anyone ,even thro they haven't work a day in there life. This is NOT WELFARE & they shouldn't get any of it. There are so many getting it that there's no one left to put into it. GET AMERICA WORKING NOT SITTING ON THE SYSTEM. It's easy donig nothing & get a check every month.

Social Security is backed by civil promises and our civil rights. This is our money which, because of our trust in our government, we allow that governent to manage. We count on President Obama to protect our money and not let Congress to rob us and makethe rich ever more powerful.

I have family members who are dependent on their social security checks. I am nearing the time when I too will be dependent on it. With rising costs for food, clothing, shelter and gasoline we can't afford to have this right cut.

It is pathetic that ANY cuts to Social Security have been proposed. The dollars earned in Social Security have been EARNED--you can call it an entitlement, but I won't. NO CUTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY!

There are massive numbers of seniors who live on Social Security; they depend on this for their lives, food, care and everything else. It's not their or our faults this mess the government has gotten itself into. You deregulated the banks; you took from Social Security for your own projects. It's not honorable to make Seniors pay for this, and very few can work now. It's INHUMANE to do this to your country's elderly that worked honorably and trusted you with their money.

The fiscal cliff which resulted in saving Wall Street bankers should not now penalize Main Street and retirees under the guise of compromise. Extending retirement age whilst ensuring the banks can continue business as usual is an insult to humanity. Do not allow the money we've all contributed all our lives to be affected by a "compromise" to a mess the Government itself created.

Instead of cutting Social Security, how about they take the pay of the Congressmen. The people who receive Social Security worked their whole lives and they are fed up with all the talk about taking their only source of income.