Obama Threatens to Withhold Social Security Checks in Debt Ceiling Talks

We as the American public need to demand that this president be impeached. A real close look needs to be taken at our congressmen and senators also. We need to be heard not just wasting time writing on these forums but start taking action through your state governments. Yahoo cannot solve these problems as they don't care all they care about is the publicity generated by your comments. Direct your comments to your state governments and lets, together get something done before this one man takes us all to the bottom of the barrel. What's it going to take people before we actually do something on our own!

He wants grandma to eat cat food and not get her meds. Yep that's Obama only kisses union butt like the big fat pig Trumpka.

As for the tax reform, I am all for it. Workers today are paid twice the wages we were twenty years ago. The minimum wage is twice what it was then. The average income for the "average worker is around $40,000 annually. 20 years ago it was around $18,000 for the same work. The cost of food has gone up around 15% or so. Given all this taxing these workers will not hurt them at all. Sure they will cry but get over it. We did 20 years ago and had harder work to do due to lack of power tools and robots!

Back to Obama...... Why should he punish the retired,injured, the war vets and others who have served this country? We were all hard working Americans who did nothing to deserve this. Why steal our money we paid into this country with the assurrance we will be taken care of rather than manipulated by a shmuck who does not have to stop the money flow, but will make the decision to. WHAT KIND OF A PERSON IS HE? If he stops social security checks even once, their may be a civil war, and that is not progress!!!!

I am not a conspiracy theorist, I am a common 58 year old man keeping my eyes open. I am not walking around with my eyes closed to what is transpiring. Ever thought about Dec. 21st. 2012? Probably not. At least not to the point of researching it and having an inkling what the Mayans may have been predicting. It will never happen to us, you say. #$%$ The universe has its own war going on to survive and the earth will be in the middle of it. Every 8 thousand years or so ( have to check my source) the sun will be directly in the center of the Milky Way. (our galaxy) . An uncommon phenomena will occur and our earth will "wobble" slowly but surely. Some scientists go so far to say the earth will turn upside down!!! Imagine that! Needless to say our worries will all be over and Obama will drown in his own vomit!

I guess I am the only one posting anything lately. Has nobody got anthing pertinent to say? We as the "people of the most feared country in the world" have it wrong. China, Russia, and even the "towelheads" of Irac are just biding their time to strike. Even Japan being ever so quiet has a plan. As they struck Pearl Harbor, they will strike again, but not by force. Any living, breathing person alive can see what they are up to. Their forefathers before them and before them have shared the same traditions. Today the Japanese are still honoring the same traditions today. And us? We go on our merry way not a care as a whole not giving a #$%$ about our own traditions. Traditions are the staple of family and gov't as well. I don't a nd won't say a word according to the bible simply it is more arguable and may offend someone and that is not my intention. What happens will happen no matter what words say. In closing, (this time) I will say the USA is in for the fight of survival soon, whether it be brought on by our own gov't. or another.

I am 68, this did not just start yesterday. try 12 years of rep running the country. sure blame the current admin. rep love that. every one of them running the gov should be hung. both dem and rep. we need a third part, made of regular working men and women. not lawyers, judges, just common people like you and me. if any one of us did what the government has done we would serve life in prisson like madoff. the government bails out the bankers guilty of more than madoff has ever done, we give him 3 life sentences. no the crooks made off with the candy store while madoff just stole a lil candy. it is not the will of the people but the will of big business that determins policy. please forgive me my typos, i am old and can not see so well. my little ss was not enough to live in us. i moved to china. people i buy an inhaler cost 45 us. went to austraila and bought the same thing for under 5 dollars. what the he(( is going on? come this election lets put all of them on the street. lets find some body any body has to be better than what we have. if you have not watched michael moore video you need to see it. other countries have social med. works great. big business don't want it here. politicians work for big business and don't want it either. i am diabetic, meds cost me over 400 us dollars every month. ss is 518 usd. how do i live or survive? i see another boston tea party in the making. put boat anchor around their necks and throw then in. i do not think i am a radical, i am american and want some thing better for my children and grand children.

All in all I can't for the life of me tell anyone where he came from. I thought he was a lawyer not a "politian". (the same by the way) Nobody can give me a straight answer where the heck he came from or his resume`. What has this country become? The middle class has all but disappeared, and the white collar workers are making a hundred thousand dollars annually, and that has just been in yhe last 3 - 4 years. Correct me if I'm wrong but the way I see it the poor will continue to get poorer, giving rise to crime, the rich will get richer and simply will live far away from these criminals, all because the gov't. has it all wrong! Baby steps Mr. President. Whoever you are.

GEEEZZ!!! I could go on and on. I realize we (USA) are in debt but whatever happenned to the countries owing us money? Did we write it off? Trade it? Forget it? I remember in high school every country in the world owed us money. Have we forgotten? I'm sure it didn't balance out. I thought we the USA were the most powerful country in the world. Lately it seems we are the weakest!!

Who does he think he is! Sure, he has the power to withhold social security checks, but is he really thinking of the people who live on this money or is he thinking of himself! He knows he won't be re-elected so he will do as much damage as he can and blame it on the Republicans! He has so far. He claims he is cleaning up Bush's mess, well bull...t!!! It is time we the people take more back and give less to the gov't. Yes, I receive didable benefits so how do you think I am going to feel! His wishful plan is to do away with people over 60 and "start all over" Can you say "genecide?" He reminds me of a man in the 40's who wanted a race of "perfect" people. I think you know who he was. This man is just as insane as the other as far as that goes. I keep telling people he is out to destroy yhe economy of the USA and they just say, "OH WELL" I can't do a thing about it. He may succeed and never be heard of again, except in Afganistan.

Did anyone ever think Obama is not who we think he is? With the technology of facial reconstruction, he could be of a terrorist group!! Remember it took decades to plan 911.

Here is what I sent directly to the White house via their on-line message system:

I am appalled that you would threaten to withhold Social Security payments to make a political point. Senior Citizens cannot get jobs because most employers will not hire them. It is not senior citizens who are not doing their job, it is the politicians who were elected to represent them, and yet I do not hear one word about these same politicians refusing their paychecks for not doing the job for which they were elected.

If even one senior citizen or person on SSI has a heart attack, a stroke or dies because of the stress of worrying about losing what represents their only source of income so that politicians can prove their point, there is no valid reason why you should not be held morally and legally accountable for wrongful death and charged accordingly both criminally and civilly. There is little difference between scaring an individual to death over worry that they will lose their homes, not be able to feed themselves and pay their bills and holding a gun to that person's head and pulling the trigger.

Shame on you.

I guess we will all see on Aug 3rd. I know if my check doesn't go into my account we will be added to the category of homeless. I am sure part's of what was said was taken out of context it always is! However. there is or isn't enough money to pay the governments obligation to it's own people? The thought of paying others before paying it's own people just astounds me!

Take the money you use to send overseas to other countries and fight other countries wars with and for outer space programs and use that money to pay ssi and ss and disability checks with.

Checks to foreign countries, checks to people who are not citizens or legal immigrants, checks to all politicians, checks to each pet project (aka, pork), checks to the "staff" working for the politicians who are paid by the government should be cut off completely, before they take from the forced retirement funds we had no choice but to pay...

i think someone will go after him,so they will raise security! IMPEACH

obama is nothing but a lying POS! if he does this he would be proven to be crazier then he is...

Social security is paid by working people. It is there for those who have paid into it and for those who are disabled. The govt steals and spends taxpayers' money and now our president is playing games with people who can't earn an income. Zero tolerance for bully presidents.

peice of crap we have in the white house OBAMA needs to resign

How dare this maniac blatantly THREATEN the Senior Citizens of this country. HOW DARE HE!!!! What a spiteful coward!!!!