Cutting the income of Social Security beneficiaries and increasing the cost of medical services to the same beneficiaries puts our most vunerable citizens at risk. I have been affected because I now have to live with one of my adult children instead of living on my own. How can you justify cutting taxes for people who are in the top 2% income when your poorest are barely surviving?

Presently, Payroll contributions to Social Security is capped at 110k income annually.This makes no sense. All income levels should contribute, with a percentage of these additional funds earmaked for Medicare and Medicaid.

Over the past decade, many Americans have seen their income fall, have lost jobs and have fallen into poverty. Meanwhile, the wealth of the top 2% has skyrocketed, thanks, in large part, to huge tax cuts. Republicans are trying to hold the middle class hostage during the fiscal negotiations in exchange for providing millionaires and billionaires with another tax break. Enough! It's time for the top 2% to pay their fair share so we can protect our social safety net. There is no "cliff" on December 31; the economy won't collapse overnight. Senator Lieberman has stated that he is willing to consider cuts to essential services such as social security/medicare/medicaid during the negotiations; and Senator Blumenthal has yet to make a firm commitment. This is unacceptable.

I am a volunteer Senior Peer Counselor with the Sonoma County Community-Family Services Agency. The seniors who we serve are barely making it on their social security allowance, now. To cut this would effect them harshly. We seniors don't need to be treated this way. PLEASE DON'T CUT SOCIAL SECURITY OR MEDICARE BENEFITS!!

Millions of Americans depend on Social Security Benefits for basic survival. As Americans, we have ALL paid into those benefits and have a right to them. My dad worked hard all his life, ran an honest business (when others in his field were cheating customers and making way more money), paid in to Social Security from his very first job on through his retirement. Now when he's 89 years old he should be allowed his FULL Social Security Benefits WITHOUT cuts. He, and thousands of other Americans, are ENTITLED to them. Don't allow Social Security Benefit cuts now or ever.

Please save Social Security cuts. There are millions of senior citizens who's only income is Social Security. We barely make it on the money we get now, and if you cut our Social Security there will be hundreds, maybe millions of seniors who would be homeless. Please do not cut social security benefits.

My husband and I are SENIOR CITIZENS and you promised us that you would not put Social Security on the table to balance the budget. We believed in you and now you are betraying us because you won't stand up to those inconsiderate Republicans. How are we supposed to live if you cut our benefits? It is hard enough to live off of what we are receiving now. Please listen to our pleas.

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.