DO NOT CUT SOCIAL SECURITY OR MEDICARE,

We the undersigned strongly encourage you to reject any decision to include the chained CPI in your proposed federal budget. Call it whatever you want -- the chained CPI is still a cut to those who need help the most. We can’t let it happen. Cutting Social Security is a bridge too far. It’s an unnecessary attack on a critical program that, by law, is unable to add to the deficit. Speaker Boehner has shown time and time again that he’s not interested in reaching a balanced agreement to reduce the debt. We have nothing to gain from these concessions. We urge you to reject the chained CPI from your proposed budget, and stand strong for Social Security. Sincerely,

Senior citizens in Connecticut are already taxed on both retirement income and Social Security benefits. Any cuts to Social Security represent an additional unacceptable burden to middle class retirees in our state.

Despite his campaign promises, President Obama is now proposing to cut Social Security. He hopes to mollify the rightwingers in Congress. Millions on Social Security have no other income. Tax the rich, not Social Security recipients.

The notion that President Obama wants to cut social security is just preposterous and would have devastating effects on so many Americans! According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Social Security is the primary income for 65 percent of elderly beneficiaries. More than 14 million elderly Americans - including my grandmother - would be impoverished without it. Social Security is not welfare or medicare; it is not "free" money, and it does not add to the national deficit. The majority of Social Security recipients worked their whole lives paying into this system, and they trusted the government with their investment. It's time for them to get the return they were promised - and not a penny less!

While cost of living continues to increase on all Americans especially the elderly who live on a fixed income, how are they expected to live out their golden years? Are we to choose between helping my mother--my children’s grandmother--live comfortably by taking away from my retirement savings or their college fund to help mom? We should be increasing Social Security benefits for both moral and practical reasons. It is simply wrong to allow elderly people to drown in the name of future financial problems.

Stop cutting Social Security for seniors. We have a hard time as it is. Please!

I'm one of many senior citizens who depends on Social Security and Medicare to maintain a style of living that keeps me from being homeless and destitute.

They plan to cut our Social Security benefits. That is unfair. I have to pay my own medicine. How can I afford it if you cut Social Security benefits?

SS is the only form of income every thing keeps going up. The cost of living need to be based on every day purches

stop taking funds from poor and increase payroll social security tax deductions out of their payroll checks on the wealthy.

Protecting the health and well-being of seniors who have paid into the social security and medicare trust funds for decades has not and will not harm the economy. There are changes that can be made -- allowing Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies, for example -- but cutting benefits is unacceptable. Chained CPIs and raising recipients' age requirements are ways of cutting benefits.