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HANDS OFF OUR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE BENEFITS

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  • Dec 10th, 2016
    Gail T. from Corvallis, OR writes:
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    Keep Trump (AL Capone) and his privileged cronies hands off my money. That's MY MONEY!!!
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  • Dec 10th, 2016
    Melissa H. from Aibonito, PR signed.
  • Dec 10th, 2016
    Jeffry B. from East Sandwich, MA writes:
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    These programs are NOT entitlements and I wish Congress and the Media would STOP referring to them, they are programs that I have PAID earned income into for many, many years in order to BENEFIT from that investment in the future. HANDS OFF. There is plenty of investment available if it is managed correctly, responsibly and for the intended outcome of the investment, in the context of the overall federal budget. HANDS OFF MY $ AND BENEFITS.
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  • Dec 10th, 2016
    Jeffry B. from East Sandwich, MA writes:
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    These programs are NOT entitlements and I wish Congress and the Media would STOP referring to them, they are programs that I have PAID earned income into for many, many years in order to BENEFIT from that investment in the future. HANDS OFF. There is plenty of investment available if it is managed correctly, responsibly and for the intended outcome of the investment, in the context of the overall federal budget. HANDS OFF MY $ AND BENEFITS.
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  • Dec 10th, 2016
    Someone from Danbury, CT writes:
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    Red will turn to Blue if GOP MESSES w Soc Sec and Medicare. Lots of outraged voters w nothing but time on their hands will show their displeasure in the interim 2 year election. And flip the Senate or tighten the house.
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  • Dec 9th, 2016
    Christine P. from San Diego, CA writes:
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    The Republicans are lying to us again.
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  • Dec 8th, 2016
    Debbie E. from Kennewick, WA signed.
  • Dec 8th, 2016
    amy m. from Torrance, CA signed.
  • Dec 8th, 2016
    Elizabeth E. from Hudson, FL writes:
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    This money is mine NOT YOURS - I have worked since I'm 15 years old while going to school and the government has no right to take away or diminish what BELONGS TO ME!!!!! Do not play with money the seniors amassed and need to live on. Thank you.
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  • Dec 8th, 2016
    Elizabeth E. from Hudson, FL signed.
  • Dec 8th, 2016
    paul t. from Cornelius, OR signed.
  • Dec 8th, 2016
    C K. from Sacramento, CA signed.
  • Dec 8th, 2016
    Pamela L. from Denver, CO writes:
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    Both of these programs should be strengthened not diminished. Congress should do their jobs and make adjustment -- not kill these programs and certainly not turn them over to corporations. The US needs a social safety net.
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  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Michele P. from Landing, NJ writes:
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    That's my money. I've paid into it for decades. No cuts if any kind.
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  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Someone from North Hollywood, CA signed.
  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Someone from Britton, MI writes:
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    I've paid social security all my life, and it's what I'll count on after I retire. It's not yours, you're not entitled to it and it does not contribute to the deficit. If you've "borrowed" against this, you've stolen from the people who own it. Pay it back and stop stealing from We the People. I'd like to finally see a government of the United States of America actually work to give a care about the people that it's sworn to protect.
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  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Gregory Z. from Lone Rock, WI writes:
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    Hands off my Social Security and Medicare. The Koch Brothers have enough money, they don't need mine.
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  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Someone from Camden, TN writes:
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    KEEP YOUR GREEDY HANDS OFF MY SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE!!! AND, STOP STEALING THE MONEY FROM THE TRUST FUND, AND PAY BACK WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY STOLEN! THAT'S THE WORKERS' MONEY THAT WE WORKED HARD FOR, AND CONTRIBUTED TO THE FUND, OUT OF EVERY PAYCHECK! IT IS NOT YOUR MONEY! SO, STOP STEALING OUR MONEY, YOU THIEVES!
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  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Linda C. from Camden, TN writes:
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    KEEP YOUR GREEDY HANDS OFF MY SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE!!! AND, STOP STEALING THE MONEY FROM THE TRUST FUND, AND PAY BACK WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY STOLEN! THAT'S THE WORKERS' MONEY THAT WE WORKED HARD FOR, AND CONTRIBUTED TO THE FUND, OUT OF EVERY PAYCHECK! IT IS NOT YOUR MONEY! SO, STOP STEALING OUR MONEY, YOU THIEVES!
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  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Linda C. from Roslyn Heights, NY signed.
  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Aaron L. from Denver, CO writes:
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    If you think you can't get enough young, healthy people to sign up for private insurance under ACA to keep premiums stable, just imagine what is going to happen to premiums when you dump 10's of millions of older, less healthy people onto the private insurance carriers. This is the stupidest idea about healthcare yet. And that's saying quite a lot in America.
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  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Dorothy D. from Manahawkin, NJ signed.
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    Dorothy D. from Manahawkin, NJ signed.
  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Margaret W. from Louisville, KY writes:
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    Medicare has been and is a successful program, do not change it!
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  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Penny H. from Pocatello, ID signed.
  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Lester H. from Minneapolis, MN writes:
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    Congress pay back the money "borrowed" from the S.S. Fund and stop with the entitlement B.S. The S.S. money is our paid for pension funds.
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  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Someone from Valparaiso, IN signed.
  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Judith S. from Englewood, CO writes:
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    Hands Off Medicare!
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  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Someone from Bozeman, MT writes:
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    I will die without them. Very soon.
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  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Someone from Cortlandt Manor, NY signed.
  • Dec 7th, 2016
    Kay S. from Seattle, WA writes:
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    If Seniors and low income families can't cover medical costs or are bankrupt by them, the costs are passed directly to their families who usually can't afford them either. If they have no family ot other support they die or live in pain. Republicans are using an authoritarian double - speak title, "Path to Prosperity", to describe this vicious and cruel program. There is NO prosperity in this.
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  • Dec 6th, 2016
    William L. from Mission, KS writes:
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    Social Security is self-financed, which means no general fund financing, so there's no reason to change what works except raising, or eliminating the cap on income, so the wealthy pay more; this will enable benefits to be expanded, so retired, and disabled recipients don't live in pain. Medicare should be expanded for everyone, so we have universal single payer healthcare instead of private healthcare tied to employment, which is unworkable. Employers refuse to hire full time, so they can avoid paying employees benefits like healthcare. This forces many to work two and three part-time jobs either without health insurance, or paying for it. It's a disgrace how workers are forced to accept wages that they can't possibly live on, which causes strife, credit card indebtedness, and miserable lives while the superrich get all the breaks taxwise including lower rates, tax havens, loopholes, and subsidies a/k/a Corporate Welfare. It's disgraceful! The multinationals, and billionaires are freeloaders. They need to pay up, so Middle Class consumers can buy their goods.
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  • Dec 6th, 2016
    Mary P. from Richmond, VA signed.
  • Dec 6th, 2016
    Someone from Hidden Valley Lake, CA writes:
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    I paid into social security and medicare since 1966. NOW IS WHEN I NEED IT. DO NOT WEAKEN MY BENIFITS SO THAT THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY CAN USE ME AS A PROFIT CENTER.
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  • Dec 6th, 2016
    Someone from Hidden Valley Lake, CA signed.
  • Dec 5th, 2016
    William D. from Portland, OR signed.
  • Dec 4th, 2016
    Patricia J. from Longview, TX writes:
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    nyone who wants to mess with Social Security should just make one visit to a nursing home where without their checks, these poor Seniors would be out on the streets and homeless. Is this really the America we want? PLEASE LEAVE IT ALONE, just remove the ceiling on earnings that are taxed and there will be no problem in keeping this solvent. Privatization would be the death of this program!!! How many of the wealthy who do not need this income ever turn it down? NOT VERY MANY!!!
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  • Dec 4th, 2016
    Someone from Issaquah, WA writes:
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    Congress and the Senate have given themselves pay raises, taken more vacations and time off than any other job in this country, been less productive then any other in history. It is time for restructuring the benefits of the congress and senate, cut life time benefits after only 2 terms and make it 20 years like the rest of the country and end the life time health insurance. This needs to be evaluated and brought in line with other jobs. Also productivity needs to be evaluated by an independent over sight committee. They spend less time in session then a teacher in class and get paid 3 - 4 x the salary for virtually no accomplishments in the past 8 years then obstruction. Give back our social security money and your salaries.
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  • Dec 4th, 2016
    Richard R. from Urbana, IL signed.
  • Dec 3rd, 2016
    Sarah M. from Woodland, WA writes:
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    Do NOT destroy Medicare and Social Security. These are NOT entitlements- these are programs I paid into for years. America needs a social Safety Net.
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