Email: President Obama, if you cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, don't ask for my help.

[sce56]

Email from

President Obama, if you cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, don't ask for my help in 2012


Sign the petition:

President Obama: If you cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits for me, my family, or families like mine, don't ask for a penny of my money or an hour of my time in 2012. I'm going to focus on electing bold progressive candidates who will fight to protect our Democratic legacy.


http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/survey_obamamedicaress_o/?akid=4326.643115.Eulu8W&rd=1&source=e4-prev&t=1

The email I just received!

RR,

BREAKING: Today, in a press conference, President Obama came right out and said it: He's pushing for benefit cuts in important programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

You and 175,000 others boldly pledged that if Obama actually cuts Medicare/Medicaid benefits, you'll take your money and volunteering elsewhere in 2012.

Click here to stand up for Social Security by adding it to your pledge.

Then, help us reach our new goal of 200,000 people by sharing the pledge:

On Facebook:

On Twitter: PLEDGE: If @BarackObama cuts Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits, no money from me in 2012

For those of us who worked tirelessly to elect Obama in 2008, here are the 3 most depressing quotes from today's press conference:

1) "We’re going to have a sales job. This is not pleasant. It is hard to persuade people to do hard stuff that entails trimming benefits and increasing revenues."

Significance: This is the first time Obama admitted he is pushing "benefit" cuts that would hurt our grandparents, kids, and the disabled -- not just "savings" like negotiating lower drug prices.

2) "I want to be crystal clear -- nobody has talked about increasing taxes now. Nobody has talked about increases -- increasing taxes next year."

Significance: Polling shows that by 4 to 1, Americans want taxes increased on the rich. The "millionaires tax" proposed by House progressives would raise $1 trillion -- helping to take benefit cuts off the table. By his own admission, Obama is not even asking for this!

3) "With respect to Social Security, Social Security is not the source of our deficit problems....the reason to include that potentially in this package is if you’re going to take a bunch of tough votes, you might as well do it now, as opposed to trying to muster up the political will to get something done further down in the future."

Significance: Seriously??? Why is a Democratic president going out of his way to help Republicans cut Social Security??? That's just wrong.

Please add Social Security to the list of programs you pledge to defend. Click here.

Then, please pass this email to others. Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- Adam Green, Stephanie Taylor, Michael Snook, Forrest Brown, and the PCCC team

In my personal quote box as I signed the petition I wrote this.
Social Security is paid for by those who earned it not the Federal Budget! If the congress stopped raiding it for the deficit it would not have any problems.

[leveymg]

1. Already signed the pledge. I'll work for state and local Dems, but not for that 2-faced DINO. Thnx

[guruoo]

2. Sorry, but I've already pledged not to violate the first rule of political wing walking...

by signing closed end pledges to withdraw support before a clear alternative has been established.

[murielm99]

3. I'm not signing it because I think Internet petitions

are meaningless.

[guruoo]

4. Funny, this is what I first typed...

then changed...

-Sorry, but I already signed the one pledging not to sign any more stupid pledges-


:headbang:

[sce56]

6. The IDEA is to send a strong message of discontent with the present course!

It is not likely that you would go to jail for changing your mind but the fact is that if a lot of people send him the message that they will not support him if he continuously caves into the opposition then it is worth the 30 seconds it takes to sign it.

[guruoo]

8. You and I may know these pledges are merely symbolic...

but others may take them so seriously that they will 'stay home' (and encourage others to do so) at any hint of 'caving', no matter
whether it's real, imagined, or ginned up by some RW troll still hanging out in mommy's basement with too much time on their hands.

[muffin1]

5. Already signed.

Not that he'll give a shit.

[Tx4obama]

7. Unrec, because the email lied.

The first sentence in the email said: "BREAKING: Today, in a press conference, President Obama came right out and said it: He's pushing for benefit cuts in important programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid."

President Obama did NOT come out and said that!

[guruoo]

10. Not only that....

like I told the same pledge crew in another thread....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=708028&mesg_id=708039

[sce56]

9. Well thanks to all who read and approved so far I have gotten a lot of emails thanking me for the

referrals!