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HANDS OFF OUR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE BENEFITS

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  • Dec 2nd, 2016
    Someone from Sun City Center, FL writes:
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    Don't change medicare, social security or the VA!
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  • Dec 2nd, 2016
    Greg G. from Toledo, OH writes:
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    I oppose the privatization of Medicare and Social Security on the Trump Agenda!
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  • Dec 1st, 2016
    jodi b. from Brainerd, MN writes:
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    I am instructing my elected officials, and the President of the United States, to keep hands off of my Social Security and Medicare benefits that I have paid for out of every paycheck for decades. They are not "entitlements", we paid for them!
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  • Nov 29th, 2016
    Someone from Plainville, MA signed.
  • Nov 29th, 2016
    Andrew W. from Webster, WI writes:
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    Paul Ryan, et al: Do not touch Medicare or Social Security. My only monthly income is from Social Security: $957; I will turn 65 next May and will start receiving Medicare. My monthly expenses: $638 Medicare Part B premium (2017 new enrollment): $134 Humana/Walmart Rx plan (Medicare Part D) for 5 prescriptions for pre-existing heart disease. $17 Total monthly expenses: $789 That leaves: $168 per month in discretionary income for all emergencies, clothes, travel, gifts, entertainment. I am willing to live with this. Could you?
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  • Nov 26th, 2016
    Naomi K. from Malden, MA signed.
  • Nov 20th, 2016
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  • Nov 20th, 2016
    Shelly D. from Port Saint Lucie, FL writes:
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    Earned benefits they are ours socoal security and Medicare is vital to our survival . Our president elect Trump said no cuts to social sevurity and Medicare, we need more in our social security check not less. If the govebme t is not concerned about giving tax breaks huge tax breaks to billionaires then the government better leave the rest of us alon who had that money taken out of every paycheck ! We need the money now more than ever before when we sick and old. This petition better be circulating to the right people the majority of American people are in support of no cuts to THEIR MONEY!!!
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  • Nov 19th, 2016
    Teresa U. from Beaverton, OR signed.
  • Nov 19th, 2016
    Johnny V. from Buffalo, TX writes:
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    Medicare is a lifeline for millions of seniors across America !
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  • Nov 16th, 2016
    Someone from Canyon Country, CA writes:
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    My husband, my parents and my brother all depend heavily on their Social Security checks. My parents and brother only have Medicare for health care. What would these four people - one developmentally disabled adult, two over 70 seniors, and one disabled veteran - do without these benefits????
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  • Nov 15th, 2016
    Lee M. from Stony brook, NY signed.
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    Lee M. from Stony Brook, NY signed.
  • Nov 19th, 2015
    Someone from North Ridgeville, OH writes:
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    Keep your Thieven hands off my Social Security and medicare.Use your own pocket Money to pay for all the Refugees and Illegal Aliens, I'm tired of being left with out for someone that is not a Legal Citizen . If you don't have the money in the General budget then send the Refugees away and don't steal from the Military or I will sue everyone Person involved including the ignorant Boob Obama
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  • Oct 14th, 2015
    Someone from Portland, OR signed.
  • Oct 10th, 2015
    Someone from Livonia, MI signed.
  • Sep 15th, 2015
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  • Aug 26th, 2015
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  • Aug 25th, 2015
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  • Jul 22nd, 2015
    Someone from Seattle, WA writes:
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    You can't take away social security and still keep your benefits as a member of the US government. At the same time as we are helping the rich we want to rob those that have barely enough to live on. I have paid in to the fund and I want a return for my investment. Please do the right thing and fund social security, it was implemented for a reason and it's deplorable and unpopular to cut funding for both Social Security and Medicare programs. If you DO want to cut it, cut your own benefits first. You can also just cut Medicare and implement free healthcare, that's a way to fix it. But the burden is already high while corporations pay no tax and use over-seas labor benefiting companies in India and China. Help the people of the US, help us with Education, and basic social services. We are falling behind the rest of the world to enrich .01% of the population. Make your constitutes your priority and stop treating us like your enemy. We are just like you, working hard, loving this country and doing our best to make this society better.
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  • Jun 19th, 2015
    Someone from Apopka, FL writes:
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    I received ssa and survivor I did mostly labor jobs and only recieve 30 above ssi but im trying to get off of it because it not enough to live off of there need to be a minimum on ssa to and u should not cut social security I have no family.and without I would've probably gave up because the hard work I had to endure and committed suicide.I can't be a criminal and that probably would have been my only other options.
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  • Jun 15th, 2015
    Someone from Salina, KS writes:
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    Social Security was started as a means to supplement income. The money belongs to the American Public of retirement age. It was intended only for that - not to supplement the government and needs to have a "HANDS OFF" tag attached to it. Do not "borrow" it or use it for anything except for what it was intended!
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  • Feb 2nd, 2015
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  • Jan 29th, 2015
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  • Jan 12th, 2015
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  • Dec 28th, 2014
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  • Nov 29th, 2014
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  • Aug 28th, 2014
    Someone from Cleveland, OH writes:
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    My husband and I both went back to school to change careers in our 50s in an attempt to improve our earning potential. HUGE student loan debt and still no jobs. PLEASE do not touch Social Security and Medicare of retirees!!!
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  • Aug 5th, 2014
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  • Mar 23rd, 2014
    Someone from San Mateo, CA writes:
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    A little graphic but tells it like it is! Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security " to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. Here's a response in a letter from fromMontana ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is! "Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight!!! 1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS. 2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63). 3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud. 4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET Again. 5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from > Day One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? > Because "you i" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills. > > 6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you "incompetent people" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt. To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bull***t" to your incompetence. > Well, Captain ********, I have a few questions for YOU: 1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career? 2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers? 3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance? 4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies? It is you, Captain Bull**it, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense. > That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advanci
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  • Jan 19th, 2014
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  • Jan 18th, 2014
    Someone from Indian Wells, CA writes:
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    STOP the garnishment of Social Security for student loan debt!! This is my survival income, the only income I receive.
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  • Jan 18th, 2014
    Someone from Indian Wells, CA writes:
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    STOP the garnishment of Social Security for student loan debt!!
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  • Oct 17th, 2013
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  • Oct 10th, 2013
    Someone from Indian Wells, CA writes:
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    Who needs Congress when they garnish my Social Security for a defaulted student loan? Anyone that does that either hates their mother or has lousy parents. It's my last survival money and every cent they take out takes food off the table.
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  • Oct 10th, 2013
    Someone from Wooster, OH signed.