Social Security is the sole source of income for me as wall as many others. Please don't allow congress to put SS and Medicare on the chopping block. I have worked for a living since I was 15 years old and have paid into Medicare and SS as long as they have been there. I can no longer work. SS is my sole source of income. I worked for it, paid into it and need it and I need it to not be compromised. I have been without healthcare insurance for almost 10 years. I know the rich folks and the big corporations can afford more taxes. We in the middle class can not. Please don't compromise us in the middle class.

Do not cut social security. I have earned it and still continue to earn it. I paid for it. It is mine. If you cut it without my approval you are stealing my savings. That is punishable by law.

I've paid into social security just like any retirement plan. It's supposed to be guaranteed with a cost of living increase built in. It's not part of any budget, leave it alone.

Ask the President not to cut social security benefits, and not to agree to keep some of the Bush tax benefits for the wealthy.

Stand Your Ground, Obama

I AM A SENIOR AND THE EFFECTS UPON ME AS WELL AS OTHERS WILL BE CATASTROPHE. I RECEIVED A SOC SEC BUMP OF $30 FOR 013 AND MY INSURANCE PREMIUMS BUMPED MORE THAN THAT. YOU'RE WELCHING!!

Proposed cuts to Social Security would be devastating to those among us who can least afford it. Tell Harry Reid and the Democrats in Congress that it is unacceptable to allow cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid as part of any debt/budget negotiations.

In the wake of the Connecticut massacre, it is time for the country to get behind sane and responsible laws regarding the use of firearms. There is no need for automatic weapons or large clips of ammunition. We can get this done.

Children's Mental Health is the base cause of the Newtown tragedy. Access to certain types of weapons is a means, an enabler and tightening that will help. But to really do something lasting and have a greater impact on the problem, addressing inadequacies in the Children's Mental Health System is essential.

Have paid into Social Security and Medicare for many years and now, to be told we can't have our benefits any longer! Seniors can barely make ends meet as it is!

These Social Security cuts will affect myself and so many other people like me and I am asking the President and Congress to oppose this movement on the broad side forever. People work their whole life and if they get to receive their Social Security benefits after 30 or more years of hard work. This is such a heart breaking feeling to many of us in this situation because benefits for Congressional folks is a no brainer. They are able to retire almost at a bat of an eye and God only knows what else are the benefits they get that is not mentioned or said. It is really sad that no one really cares about other people today and especially the ones that made it to the top. Well, we all can not make it to the top some one has to be at the bottom. Please make it better for us as a whole. Politicals already have their money in place and have nothing to worry about as far as income, but on the other hand we do. I hope someone cares. Please try to be good to other people, even if you don't know them. We get stuck sometimes on people we know and the people you don't know we have a good heart too. Merry Christmas to All!!

Belinda J Mooney: "The Great Depression was grievous time in the United States. At that time there were hardly any jobs then the stock market crashed. Afterwards the country discovered it was contending with a great population of retirement age adults without any work and no retirement income set aside. President Theodore Roosevelt was one of the foremost people to envision a need for a system that would aid America's older citizens, particularly after a major catastrophe such as the Great Depression." Sixty+ years ago, at the insistence of my parents, I applied for and received my Social Security card. I signed it at an age when I knew nothing of how to properly sign such an important document so I signed it "Tommy Kelly." Fifty years later that original card was stolen from me. Please don't steal what I paid into and whatever is left.