The Social Security Trust Fund is solvent and only problematic when political leaders see the money and want to use it. This was true of Lyndon B. Johnson, for his war in Southeast Asia, and in 1980 President Reagan and the democratic congress decided to tax the benefits. The COLA, initated in 1975 was used as a means to cope with out of control inflation, but has been kept until it's recent use in the "fiscal cliff" talks.. The SSI program must be taken off the table while the fiscal cliff is under discussion. Any revision of the program needs a concentrated analysis and review that guarantees any contributions to the SSI funds are put in a "locked box" for future generations. To use SSLI as a chip to leverage free income for the top 2% is a further deterioration for the life of older Americans. Remember SSI funds are used to to make Medicare payments and come out of the individuals monthly supplements. Medicare's fee didn't freeze, why keep taking money away from social security recipients. If you freeze the supplement, then make it tax free again.

THERE IS NO REASON WHY WE SHOULD OR EVEN THINK ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT CUTS IN "FISCAL CLIFF" NEGOTIATIONS.

I have not currently been affected by the cuts but have paid in for over 38 yrs. I want my benefits available when I reach the time I am able to collect.

All people all over the globe should have a home, food and the type of health care they need. Social Security is now being considered as a cut to help with the deficit. I know many who depend on this to keep a home, food and to stay healthy. These cuts should not happen.

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!!!