As a retiree living primarily on Social Security, I am concerned about any "bargains" made by the White House with Congress that diminishes payments to people like me in an economy where prices and the cost of living continue to rise across the board. Moreover, the top 2% do NOT need any more tax breaks, and the Bush tax cuts should NOT be extended!

I have two very small pensions that help but the bulk of our expenses are paid from our Social Security checks. If they are cut we will be out on the street. Please help us and those like us to live the rest of our lives in our own homes and to be self supporting. We worked and paid into Social Security for this privilege.

Do not Cur Social Security

As part of the fiscal showdown negotiations, President Obama has proposed cutting Social Security for almost all current and future beneficiaries. Social Security should not be a part of the negotiations. It does not contribute even $1 to the deficit, and according to even the most pessimistic projections it is 100% solvent for more than 20 years.

I am disabled and cuts to Social Security would be the difference whether I eat, have money to buy my meds, or have money to pay for lights and water. In other words, cuts would mean I would have to go without something that I need to live.

Next month I, as well as other baby boomers, will be 65. We have worked and paid into social security, and me personally since age 15. Due to illness I retired at age 62. But as far as myself and the rest go, if you reduce cost of living or cut money from Social Security or Medicare you put our health at risk. I personally take meds that have no generics. One med is $200 for 30 pills and another is $80. I have signed up for Plan D for meds and that costs $36 a month. Well, do I get my meds and not eat or do I eat and not get my meds. This is what you force me and the other baby boomers to ask. The health of seniors is at risk. We have worked and supported the system and surprise instead of help we are the first on the chopping block. Please reevaluate your policies and cut the waste. We are NOT the problem Boehner wants us to be. It is always the Rich want to stay Rich. They have excuses, we have health issues. More money taken from us is certainly not fair. If I heard right during the debates some 7 million dollars already was taken from Social Security or Medicare and I do not know what it was used for. I do not recall being asked if I wanted that money taken or used for something other than helping us in our Golden Years, which Boehner is tarnishing fast. The word entitlements means exactly that. We seniors ARE entitled because we paid into the system. Now when we are vulnerable as we age, our rights need to be protected just like the money WE ARE entitled to. ANY cut to social security or medicare puts us SENIORS at risk and should be stopped.

For the millions of folks of the baby boomer era, such as myself, Obama is willing to send us to early suicides or homelessness by curtailing the cost of living interests to us at retirement. We need to STOP HIM from keeping this concession on the table, as MOST of us do not have SAVINGS or an IRA, or any OTHER monies to fall back on like when FDR started this program way back when. Please sign this petition as it is going to render most of us homeless. This is URGENT, my cost of living was going to go up 1 dollar this year from 874 to 875 per month as of January 1, 2013. None of us can live on this meager existence as the cost of everything from housing to utilities to food is going up. Please sign now!

I live on Social Security because my life savings was lost in the 2008 bank scandal. President Obama lied in his campaign promise to keep Social Security off the table in budget negotiations. What are we seniors to do? Eat cat food? Even that has become too expensive.

Many people in the US depend on their social security check each month as their only source of income. A cut in social security could be devastating.

MR. ROOSEVELT STARTED THIS FOR THE WORKING CLASS AND WE ARE LOSING IT STAND UP AND SAY NO MORE !!!!!!!!!!!!

It hard enough to get by now,any cuts would be devistating

Social Security should NOT be in discussion with the Fiscal Cliff...leave it alone.