As If It Will Do ANY Good - Contact the White House On This SSI Outrage

[we can do it]

Cutting SSI while the filthy bastards robbing this country blind keep their tax cuts? REALLY???? WTF???

My letter to the White House (at least I tried).................

If you make ANY cuts to social security- I promise I will do ALL I can to opose you. I DID NOT WORM MY ASS OFF IN 2008 TO HELP ELECT A REPUBLICAN.

change I can believe in? You have broken your promises. It is a disgrace the way you buckle to the obscenely rich. We need jobs and a reliable safety net here, but all you can see is the big donors and Wall Street.

Do something for the average working person. We've lost our pensions due to the obscene greed. The CPI has been altered to steal from those on SSI and prevent them from getting COLAs that are rightly deserved. Meanwhile the filthy rich continue to hoard wealth and send jobs out of the country and the banksters go unpunished.




...........I refuse to spend one minute campaigning or one cent donating to this republican.
He Obviously Doesn't Give a Shit About Us- Time To Primary Him if he goes through with this

[lamp_shade]

1. Huh? The President is a republican?

[Pholus]

Sorry you've been out of the loop. Here.

Page 1, NYT Today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/us/politics/07fiscal.html?hp

"The president’s renewed efforts follow what knowledgeable officials said was an overture from Mr. Boehner, who met secretly with Mr. Obama last weekend, to consider as much as $1 trillion in unspecified new revenues as part of an overhaul of tax laws in exchange for an agreement that made substantial spending cuts, including in such social programs as Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security — programs that had been off the table."

[Pholus]

7. My reply was to the original simple "Huh?" in the subject line. To the second question:

Well, he may not be a republican but he is definitely not talking to his own party either.

"The intensifying negotiations between the president and the speaker have Congressional Democrats growing anxious, worried they will be asked to accept a deal that is too heavily tilted toward Republican efforts and produces too little new revenue relative to the magnitude of the cuts."

[we can do it]

9. Its Becoming Blatently Obvious He Is Only Intersted In Serving Wall Street

[we can do it]

8. If the Shoe Fits

[muffin1]

10. Yes. n/t

[WillParkinson]

2. I hope that isn't verbatim...

I'm not sure I want to know how to worm your ass off. :)

(I do, however, understand the sentiments and did send my own letter as well.)

[we can do it]

4. OMG I Am So Pissed Off I Can't Spell & Of Course Spell Check Wouldn't Catch That

oh well
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[bornskeptic]

3. Link please.

If what you are saying has some relation to reality I'd like to know about it, but my googling produced nothing.

[we can do it]

5. Pull Your Head Out of the Sand, Turn On NPR, Read or Something Before Posting

maybe you misspelled google

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-debt-talks-obama-offers-social-security-cuts/2011/07/06/gIQA2sFO1H_story.html

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/18/obama-weak-social-security-bernie-sanders-tells-raw/

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20077452-503544.html


http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/07/obama-offers-up-social-security-cuts.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/07/07/137667831/reports-of-broader-deal-on-deficit-as-obama-and-leadership-huddle


is that enough?

[great white snark]

6. Didn't you do the same all the other times he was supposed to cut SS?

This time I mean it! Hmph!

[we can do it]

11. WTF does that mean? When was he previously re-elected?

[Pholus]

12. I don't know about "we can do it" but I definitely have said SS cuts are my line in the sand.

If he doesn't, if it is all 12 dimensional chess to show how unreasonable the GOP is, then no problem.

If he gives away the New Deal as some part of a "four to one" ratio of spending cuts to revenue increases then I will have to say my interest is gone.

[we can do it]

13. Well Said

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[Jakes Progress]

15. If you're not a billionaire or corporation . . . does not good to contact WH.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

16. DONE and posted the same suggestion twice on DU this morning. It can't hurt!

GREAT LETTER. Here's mine:

_ _ _ _ _ _ _

Dear Mr.President,

This is to inform you that if you in any way touch Social Security or Medicare in the form of cuts, including any more "tax holidays" (those are cuts) - you WILL lose my vote.

You may call the cuts something else, such as implementing "chained CPI" - or you may call them "tax holidays" - but they're still cuts.

Cut these programs in any way, anymore and lose millions of votes, mine included. It's that simple.

Most Americans *know* that it is simply unnecessary to touch these programs other than expanding and increasing them. It's morally reprehensible to cut them and economically unnecessary when the richest do not pay their fare share, when we spend trillions of dollars on multiple unnecessary wars, and when corporate tax loopholes and subsidies eat up billions if not trillions more of our tax dollars.

OUR money is being stolen and given away to the rich and big corporations while our own lives, health, and retirements are sacrificed.

I know that Republicans have been chomping at the bit to decimate and eliminate these programs ever since they were created.

The way they can do that without taking the fallout for it themselves from voters -- is to get a "Democrat" to do it. And you are falling right into their trap. I had considered you more intelligent than that.

From you and every other Democrat on Capitol Hill without exception, I EXPECT a strong, principled stance on this. Absent that, I've no reason to vote for you - any of you.

Democrats do *not* cut Social Security or Medicare. Ever. And I will not vote for a Republican hiding behind a "D".

I've written a similar message to you before. I presume you or your staff received it and that they are tallying these responses.

I'm not alone in this sentiment, I assure you, whether you hear from all who share my feelings or you don't, know that I am certainly not alone.

Touching these programs in any way other than expanding and increasing them ie: raising the 106,000 cap on social security - is unnecessary and unforgivable. Period.

And I'm sorry to say that if you do so you will absolutely lose my support, my small financial and time contributions to your campaign, and my vote.

After all, if these programs are to be cut and decimated in myriad ways, privatized, vouchered, turned into block grants, or otherwise strangled, we may as well let the Republican candidate win. No difference.

Good Day Mr. President,

[we can do it]

19. Very Nice Thanks for Posting It

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. SSI is NOT Social Security.

SSI stands for Supplemental Security Income, it is a state/Fed program for very very low income disabled people who are not eligible for Soc. Sec.

SSDI is the Social Security Disability Program.

SS is often used to mean Social Security.

I have not heard a word about Pres. Obama cutting SSI.

[we can do it]

18. Well Pardon My Abreviation- I Think Repub Lite SUCKS

NOT yet but who knows what safety net goes tomorrow, as long as we don't disturb the upper crust.

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. No disagreement from me on Republican lite, none at all.

No disagreement either about noticing the steady erosion of the safety net.

[Phx_Dem]

21. Facts be damed. Knock yourself out!

[bemildred]

22. Hiccough. nt