Now do you understand why so many of us termed our vote as being for the lesser of two evils?

[JDPriestly]

244. I don't think I will be the one deciding whether we get another Democratic president.

A lot of people who voted for Obama will run like crazy from the Democratic Party into the arms of third parties and into the Independent category. I suspect a lot of people just will stop voting.

I don't know whether you worked to get out the vote and register voters this past Fall, but it is an extremely tough job requiring many, many volunteer hours. A lot of the volunteers this year were seniors. In fact, young people will give a few hours here and there, but the unpaid volunteers who worked day after day were mostly seniors (at least in my group).

Social Security is my income. That's what I have. My savings pay me nothing. Wall Street just steals if you entrust your brokers with your money. Those are the tough lessons that I and many other seniors have learned in recent years.

Social Security makes our lives possible. We have not complained. We trusted President Obama. If Democrats vote for the changes to the COLA which will result in cuts to Social Security, they can forget about being the voice of sanity and staying in the White House in the future. No one will trust them.

I'm not talking about what I want to happen. I am talking about what will happen. Obama let people (active Democrats) down when he failed to get a public option with his health care plan. Democratic activists stayed home in 2010, and Democrats lost the majority in the House. We are paying for that now.

Obama cannot afford to get more Tea Bagger types in the House and Senate in 2014. More of them would make his life miserable.

So, Obama has to veto cuts to Medicare. It's really his only choice unless he wants to be remembered as the president who caused the country's seniors to fall into poverty.

It is essential from a political point of view, that Obama let the nation know that the Republicans are demanding these cuts to Medicare and that he is refusing them.

As for unemployment insurance, having enough jobs is a better alternative than unemployment insurance. We are on the way to recovery. Personally, I think that cuts such as those proposed for Social Security will mean that we fall back into high unemployment at the rates we saw a year or two ago. Social Security is a sort of grease to the economy and the job market overall.