The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Mayor Bloomberg is standing by a plan to cut emergency food stamps for many New Yorkers who are still recovering from Hurricane Sandy. The mayor wants to cut the number of New York City zip codes that are eligible for the emergency food stamps from 82 to 12, impacting thousands of Hurricane Sandy victims.

We have overpaid child support by 25 thousand dollars already and they claim that we owe another 11 thousand. Official payments were made to the court, but we were not ever given credit for them. The court says too bad because we did not get the legal advice nor help we needed in a "timely" manner according to the courts.

Benjaman Kyle is a unique victim of identity theft. After getting beaten in 2004, he had not only his money and his identification taken from him, but also, his memories. Benjaman has retrograde amnesia, and is unable to remember any of his personal details or past. All investigations, including one by the FBI, were unable to discover who he was. Benjaman Kyle is an "invisible man" without a social security number. Without a number, Benjaman can't get hired or stay in a shelter. There's nothing he can do. He's trapped in a loophole that nobody anticipated. Only political intervention will allow Benjaman to work and have a place to stay. But nobody is speaking for him or his rights. Do we leave him here? He needs a new number, for a new life. For more info, visit www.findingbenjaman.com

There are many elderly people who need to be taken care of and should be. Or disabled people that are not able to take care of themselves. Just because you never have to worry about it, does not mean it is not essential!

There is great mistrust of Congress regarding it's veiled intentions to make Americans think that Social Security is part of the Federal budget when, instead, it is a self-sustaining Trust Fund, not to be tinkered with. Recently, new wording on SS checks and direct deposits now call it "Federal Benefit Payment/Entitlement" which is incorrect and deliberately misleading. SS is an Earned Benefit, legally withheld from our paychecks.

Any changes to either Medicare or Social Security will eventually result in the shameful conditions that precipitated the formation of these invaluable programs in the first place....namely, the elderly having to resort to abject poverty or relying on their offspring for care in their declining years.

When I was a high earner I learned that after I made $119,000. I didn't have to make any more payments to SS and Medicare. Why did I get that benefit when I was earning so much more and could afford my share. Now that we need more SS revenue, this entitlement should be eliminated.

Governor Otter has the opportunity to give the gift of life to more than 112,000 Idahoans by saying "yes" to Idahos Medicaid Expansion.

Fatherless homes are a major issue in African American homes. Especially to those who are single moms raising boys. Having a little brother myself I understand what it means to a boy to have his father around. Only a man can show him how to be a man

I spend my afternoons at the Alameda skate park and by the time I get there I only have an hour to ride. Thats the same for other people too, if we had lights the skate park would be used more, and would be letting people ride safely after dark.

I spend my afternoon at the Alameda skate park and by the time I get there I only have an hour to ride. Thats the same for other people too, if we had lights skate park would be used more, and would be letting people ride after dark.

While NY'ers are living without power, in mold, and without a plan for recovery, Mayor Bloomberg is spending his time plotting to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as the brand new Co-Chair of Fix the Debt, a gang of billionaires bent on destroying our earned benefits. A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies examines CEOs of public companies who have endorsed the “Fix the Debt” campaign. The report, “Pension Deficit Disorder: The Massive CEO Retirement Funds and Underfunded Worker Pensions at Firms Pushing Social Security Cuts,” finds that these CEOs, while calling for ordinary Americans to take cuts in Social Security and Medicare, are sitting on an average of $9 million each in retirement funds. Most are also running large deficits in their own employees’ pension funds.