Tell the Fiscal Commission Social Security & Medicare Cuts are UNACCEPTABLE

[jtown1123]

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare just put up a new letter in their legislative action center demanding the Fiscal Commission Back the F*** off of SS and Medicare cuts:

"National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform:

You’ve got to be kidding me. I just read your report on reducing our nation’s deficit and you must be be living in a different America than I am if you think the middle class can take another hit. Our homes lost their value in the housing market collapse, our 401(k)s were destroyed by Wall Street excesses, our families and neighbors are dealing with chronic unemployment with no end in sight, and now you want to cut our Social Security and Medicare?

I agree our nation’s debt and deficit are serious issues that should be addressed, but punishing those who can afford it the least is not what most Americans had in mind. Raising the retirement age, reducing Social Security benefits, cutting the COLA and forcing seniors to share an even larger burden of medical costs in Medicare will destroy the safety net that has literally saved me during this economic collapse. While you may not need these programs, the millions of hard-working Americans who’ve paid into the system for a lifetime do. You can't balance the budget or erase our federal debt on the backs of the nation's elderly, disabled and their families, and shame on you for even trying."


Send the letter here: http://capwiz.com/ncpssm2/issues/alert/?alertid=19424506

Thanks!

[Skittles]

1. and yet the rich can keep their tax cuts

un-fucking-believable

[TxVietVet]

2. And the stupid f*cks say there is no class warfare.

Looks like it to me.
It may be time for the rest of the nation to wake up before it's too late.

The conservanazi republiKKKlans have hate SS since it started. To them, it's welfare or an entitlement, like veterans' pensions, welfare, unemployment. If it benefits the working class and the poor, the conservanazis are against it.

It's getting time to raise hell with Congress and Obama.

[MineralMan]

3. That will work, for those who don't want to do it another way.

For those who wish to contact the Commission directly, on your own business or personal letterhead, though, the mailing address is:

National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
1650 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20504

Even better, send separate letters to each of the commissioners at the same address. Just put each member's name above the address. Here's a list:

Alan Simpson
Erskine Bowles
Max Baucus
Xavier Becerra
Dave Camp
Tom Coburn
Kent Conrad
David Cote
Mike Crapo
Richard Durbin
Ann Fudge
Judd Gregg
Jeb Hensarling
Alice Rivlin
Paul Ryan
Jan Schakowsky
John Spratt
Andrew Stern

My letters go into the US mail tomorrow, on my business letterhead.

[jtown1123]

7. Awesome! I forgot to add that the email goes directly to the commission as well :)

[Hannah Bell]

4. kik

[madmax]

5. What is it about the word 'entitlement' that makes people

think 'hand outs'? Is there another word that could be used? The pugs just love to throw that out there and with a certain little smirk and snark. Just askin.

[ladjf]

6. Disband the Fiscal Commission immediately on the grounds that

they appear to be fiscally unsound in their thinking. nt

[laughingliberal]

8. kick nt