Keep Social security benefits intact and increase the amount of yearly increases to meet actual cost of living!

My husband and I are both 75, we have very small pensions from our previous jobs, but depend on our ss and medicare for living expenses, I would like to see all politians give up part of their income and see how that feels, if you all had to depend on ss, instead of your fat paychecks, and your cushy pensions, maybe, just maybe you can understand those of us who don't get what you do.

The party of greed lost. Act accordingly.

This is something that I have paid into over the years. Money from Social Security should not be put into the Governments General Fund and it would be self sustaining fund.

Tax breaks and other perks should not be given to companies that do not live up to union by laws that guarantee that union labeled items are made in the USA by legal USA residents.

Where we have failed both the children and the adults who need assisted living for mental illness, and have few if any specific hospitals geared to helping these disabled Americans, and as it this mental illness disability has led to horrific actions by certain individuals who need this aid, this petition is for the intervention of our federal government to implement a plan to once again create institutions for these affected Americans. History tells us that it was under Pres. Regean who closed many of these hospitals. Sending into the streets or back to families these institutionalized disabled Americans. Many of these families were unable to cope with the stress of a mentally disabled child or an adults return. Unfortunately these Americans had become victims in those rounds of budget cuts. We can afford and we budget to spend billions on aid for helping women have abortions, killing 1.3 million babies last year, when 20 young innocent children lose their life from the actions of someone who needed to be institutionalized. those anti 2nd amendment advocates cry out for the elimination of the gun. There is no daily prayer for the life loss in abortions not a prayer or a word against abortion killings, accept from pro-Life supporters. The abandonment of federal funded facilities was predicated on the belief that we had discovered drugs capable of making someone disabled - normal or close to it as is our understanding of it. Well we can no longer accept the drug companies position of drugging these disabled people into normality as the answer. Knowing when they commit hideous crimes they had been off of those very prescribed drugs. Americas needs are far greater than to depend on the various institutions that are scattered around the country for aid. Often forcing families to drive hours for help if it is to even become available. We need state run facilities capable of handling these patients in a manner befitting what they would receive at any private institution. When we are faced with the destruction these mentally disabled individuals cause by gun usage, it affects us all. As Americans we jump quickly to one side or the other. A side that benefits our desires and beliefs, as once again we leave behind the real culprit. The need to make help available to those who need it the most, Americas mentally disabled.

There are probably many wealthy Americans who don't need their Social Security benefits to supplement their income. Maybe we should ask them to forfeit at least some if not all of their benefits to help the economy. For those who need them or is their only source of income, nothing should be taken away. If anything some of the money saved by those forfeiting should go to increase the benefits for those below the poverty level to a level that will help them improve their situations. I have a neighbor who only receives about $800 a month in SS benefits only because she was a housewife and mother most of her life and didn't have much of an employment history. She suffers monthly trying to figure out how she's going to survive and is not even eligible for food stamps because a portion of her income comes from the state supplement to her SS. Let's level the playing field and help those who really need it.

Sign this petition against the cutting of Social Security!!!

we put into ss for our later years & you just give it to anyone ,even thro they haven't work a day in there life. This is NOT WELFARE & they shouldn't get any of it. There are so many getting it that there's no one left to put into it. GET AMERICA WORKING NOT SITTING ON THE SYSTEM. It's easy donig nothing & get a check every month.

BY CUTTING SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS TO THOSE WHOSE INCOME IS OVER $200,000.... WE COULD PROBABLY SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE FOR THOSE WHO REALLY NEED THIS INCOME FOR BASIC SURVIVAL ! YES, CUT SOCIAL SECURITY TO THOSE WHOSE INCOME IS OVER $200,000....NOW !

Social Security is backed by civil promises and our civil rights. This is our money which, because of our trust in our government, we allow that governent to manage. We count on President Obama to protect our money and not let Congress to rob us and makethe rich ever more powerful.

I have family members who are dependent on their social security checks. I am nearing the time when I too will be dependent on it. With rising costs for food, clothing, shelter and gasoline we can't afford to have this right cut.