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.

The Social Security fund has NOTHING to do with the Federal Budget, it never has. Tweak it for it's survival into the future, but otherwise leave it alone. Period!

Many Americans have found themselves as victims of this economy; several to the point of complete disillusionment with this countries government, the only thing they have are the Social Security benefits many of them worked hard for. I ask, are you considering them as you try to promote yourself as a "Great" President. I realize you didn't cause this financial nightmare, and I have supported you in the past, however I am beginning to wonder what your true agenda is. "Don't touch Social Security."

Seniors all over the United States would be affected by this plan.

With Obama's proposal to take an axe to Social Security we must push back and say NO!!!. Urge Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley to support Oregonians and tell Washington Social Security is not on the table.