Mr. President: Take Social Security and Medicare off the damned table in no uncertain terms.

[JDPriestly]

75. If it makes you feel any better, if the Obama "comprise"

compromises our Social Security, some of us will not be able to afford to stay on the internet then you will not have to deal with our posts criticizing Obama.

Question then is whether you yourself will still have a job or whether you too will have to become part of the 47% of the population who according to Romney do not pay taxes?

I assure you. That isn't much fun. Maybe your best career move would be to continue to silence all of us who are actually on Social Security. Reassure us until the deal is actually cut. And then, as with the public option, we will all just have to take the cuts and go to the library more often for our internet service.

Social Security is already a minimal payment. Any income a senior receives over a certain amount is already taxed like other income. Cutting Social Security is out of the question. The suffering that would cause would be horrifying.

As for Medicare, if the US cuts Medicare, people will die in misery. That's the simple truth. We could cut back on a few bases overseas and, guess what? More people would live. We could cut back on the salaries of our members of Congress. And guess what? They would continue to live quite well, thank you.

But you really can't cut Social Security or Medicare because they are already down to the bones. The only solution is to find money where it exists: in the pockets of the rich. It isn't a question of what people want really. It is a question of what can be done.