Constituents delivering a petitioned signed by 702 people in the district asking Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-FL) to vote against cuts to benefits.
Yesterday, constituents working with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, CREDO Action, and Democracy for America visited Congressman Patrick Murphy’s (D-FL) office to ask him to sign the Grayson-Takano letter pledging to vote against any cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits. Ai??They presented the office with a petition in favor of the letter signed by 702 constituents. Recall that Murphy recently signed a letterAi??with dozens of House Republicans calling for deficit reduction and which only embraced protecting current beneficiaries’ benefits. As Americablog notes, the letter has the support of more Republicans than Democrats and is essentially “pro-cuts.”
“Those of us who are trying to hold onto our Social Security, our Medicare…my husband and I couldn’t live without Medicare or Social Security,” NormaAi??Riccobene said to Murphy’s district director Michael Kinney. “We paid into Social Security, we paid into Medicare. Don’t tell me you’re going to cut it or tweak it.”
“There’s no doubt Congressman Murphy’s committed to the integrity of those programs,” responded Kinney.
Watch the visit:
I don’t want to hear another word from these lying corporatist about cutting Social Security or Medicare. It is time for the American people to start asking the House and Senate to pay back the trillions they have been stealing from these vital programs for many years. We should be cashing in the IOU’s they left behind, and asking for the pensions of every current and former Senator, Congressmen, and President who voted for the borrowing of these funds, to be forfeited or payed back, until the funds are recouped in full with interest! http://www.davemanuel.com/how-much-money-does-the-us-government-owe-the-social-security-trust-fund-155/
Patrick, I gave you a good deal of the only income I have, social security disability income so we could get rid of people like Allen West. But, now you’re proposing to cut our benefits as thanks for this! We might as well have left West in there. I would’ve saved my money. If you abandon people’s social security, medicaid and medicare benefits then you do us a far greater disservice than Allen West’s ridiculous verbal spewings. It’s disgraceful enough that you would even think of this. Are you planning to be as willing as the president to abandon the middle class that he vowed to protect? If so, I ask you to resign right now.
Scott Miller, Pennsylvania