Reply #24: I do not want my country to go in the direction in which Obama is going. [View All]

It's as simple as that. He is intent on cutting Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. If he succeeds, he will not just be killing innocent people in Afghanistan and other countries, he will be killing Americans. And I don't want that.

Nursing homes for the very poor who are sick and/or elderly rely on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security for much of their funding. Cuts to those programs will force many of the facilities to close and send the most vulnerable and poorest Americans onto the streets to live in squalor. How can Obama sign on to that.

And if you are lower middle class and elderly, meaning you have worked all your life, are no longer employable and relying on Social Security, you will now have to make really tough choices. Meanwhile Boehner and Obama can have their chuckles together about how happy they are making their rich donors and the corporations. It is just disgusting.

I will not vote for any candidate who votes or agrees to change Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid.

In particular, Social Security and Medicare are fully funded and don't really need to be changed.

The problem is not Social Security, Medicare or even Medicaid. The problem is that Bush passed tax cuts while starting two wars. He did not fund his wars. Let the corporations that do business with Iraq pay for those wars, not elderly Americans who had no voice in whether to start those wars.

I totally disagree with your ideas, maxrandb. I voted in 2010. In fact my Congressional District elected a progressive Democrat. It wasn't the progressive Democrats who stayed home. It was the independents and the young people -- the Obama voters. Obama made no real effort to get them out or to give them anything exciting to vote for.

Obama would not have appointed Timothy Geithner for Secretary of Treasury unless he planned, from the get-go to cut Social Security. That is proved by the fact that Timothy Geithner was appointed to the New York Fed's top post by a committee headed by Pete Peterson, the arch-foe of Social Security who wants to see all the money Americans put into Social Security placed into the gambling casino we call Wall Street. I and most other Americans do not want to have all of our retirement money gambled away and stolen as commissions by the Wall Street thieves. No thank you.

And No Thank You to Obama if he does go along with cuts in Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare -- and it sure looks like he will.

At this time, we have a large portion of the generation in their 50s who are jobless, losing their homes and unable to use the income they would normally earn during these final pre-Social Security years to save to supplement Social Security in their retirement. If Obama does what he plans and cuts Social Security COLA benefits, we will have a huge domestic crisis in about 10-15 years if not earlier.

Open your eyes. You are very, very wrong.