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I couldn't believe it! One of the first things I saw when I turned on my computer and went to my homepage of Comcast is the headline that read, "Obama Suggests Cuts to Medicare, Soc. Sec...." Then when you click on that it says, "Obama Renews Offer to Cut Social Safety Net in Big Budget Deal"

Then I read it and here are a few excerpts from it."President Barack Obama raised anew the issue of cutting entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security as a way out of damaging budget cuts, a White House official said on Sunday, as both sides in Washington tried to limit a fiscal crisis that may soon hit millions of Americans."

THen he goes on to say that he's willing to compromise on the automatic budget cuts, basically, if "we" cut or greatly minimize social security and medicare...

Then the article says that Republicans have long argued that the way to tame budget deficits over the long haul is by slowing the cost of sprwaling social safety net programs......

Then the artitcal goes on to ssay.......

"These include the Social Security retirement program and Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs for the elderly, disabled and poor that are becoming more expensive as a large segment of the U.S. population hits retirement age. "

"Last week, conservative Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said he was open to raising $600 billion in new tax revenue if Democrats accepted significant changes to Medicare and Medicaid as part of a long-term budget deal. "

If you want to read the entire article, go here
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100515721?__source=xfinity|mod&par=xfinity

But is he or anyone really serious about cutting Social Security, Disability, Medicare, Medicaid???? What will that do to millions of us? Yes, I understand that more people than ever are on disabilty and a lot on retirement, etc., but maybe had govenment knew how to budget their money, we wouldn't be in this situation!! Maybe if they didn't see Social Security as a budget they can dip into whenever they need money for something else, we could afford the retirement, disability, medicare, medicaid expenses! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! It just ticks me off; but it's also scary, you know? Yes, I'm sure you know! My gut says that they would never actually make those kind of cuts because there would be too much protest, but who knows. I just can't see it being completely cut because if they did do that, there'd be one HUGE problem on thier hands of the repercussions of such stupidity!!

Oh, so that's my "2-cents" worth, what's yours?

Debbie