SERIOUSLY? I continue to be stunned by a willingness to keep throwing the middle class under the bus. Entitlement? Well - are we entitled to eat? To have a roof over our heads? To be able to afford some medication? To pay our utilities? And never mind seniors - in Florida now many students in school are being fed breakfast lunch and dinner. I get so sick of hearing that this is the greatest country on earth - or do you mean if you make 250,000 dollars or more a year?

SERIOUSLY? I continue to be stunned by a willingness to keep throwing the middle class under the bus. Entitlement? Well - are we entitled to eat? To have a roof over our heads? To be able to afford some medication? To pay our utilities? And never mind seniors - in Florida now many students in school are being fed breakfast lunch and dinner. I get so sick of hearing that this is the greatest country on earth - or do you mean if you make 250,000 dollars or more a year?

All my life I've paid my dues. Worked since 16 and this country made sure I paid into Social Security and Medicare. Now they're telling me it's a hand out? A form of welfare? Well, let's tell them to get their hands off our entitlement, to quit squeezing the very people who actually work in America.

The Social Security problem can be easily solved. The proposal to makes cuts in the Soc. Sec. benefits is a serious blow to older Americans who depend on these benefits. Lifting the income limits that individuals pay Soc. Sec. tax on is the most sensible and fair approach.

President Obama plans to propose cutting Social Security and Medicare. As a recently retired, lifelong, hard-working former small business owner, and longtime supporter of President Obama, I cannot understand his plans to cut already meager Social Security and Medicare benefits.

Social Security is something that a lot of retirees are very depended on. It isn't right to deny these people who paid into it.

As a Missourian with a disability whose parents and in-laws also need every cent of the Social Security checks received, we are asking Senator McCaskill to keep Chained CPI calculations out of budget discussions. Raise taxes on the 1 percent instead of taking food and medicine from those who are elderly and disabled!

President Obama shouldn't cut social programs in order to get the Republican Congressional House members to make a budget.

We need Gerry Connolly to promise not to cut social security by one dime by promising to vote against any budget that uses Chained CPI or other methods to cut benefits for the old and the disabled. Want to raise more money for social security? Lift the cap on earnings subject to social security so the rich pay their fair share. Want to balance the budget? Don't do it by cutting social security payments to the old and disabled WHO PAID INTO THE SYSTEM AND ARE OWED THESE BENEFITS. Don't fall for the lie that recipients get more than they paid in. Social security is insurance against getting old or disabled without enough savings. Some die before they ever collect anything or collect little. Others collect more. Just like insurance on a house, with some that burn down and others that do not. Beneficiaries paid into the system and are OWED the promised payments in return. IF GERRY CONNOLLY WON'T PROMISE TO PROTECT EVERY DIME OF SOCIAL SECURITY, I PROMISE NOT TO DONATE A DIME OR A SECOND OF EFFORT TO GET HIM REELECTED AND I PROMISE TO SUPPORT A DEMOCRAT WHO WILL PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY

This is about President Obama's proposal to change the way cost of living increases are calculated for retirees on Social Security. As a person dependent on Social Security, the proposed "chained CPI" would decrease cost of living increases for me and my fellow retirees and make those among the least able responsible for decreasing the deficit. This terrible idea should be rejected.

Social security is my main source of income. If cost of living adjustments are not granted in the future, I probably won't be able to afford housing and the other necessities of living. It's a struggle to make ends meet even now with cost-of-living raises. The future seems hopeless without the cost-of-living adjustments that have been granted in past years.

Let's quit taking money from the retired that live on this money. Our home insurance went up 26.5%, how are we able to keep up?