Eighty percent, that’s a big number! H-e-l-l-o, Dems, 80% of America is insisting that the BIG 3 – Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, - be untouched during negotiations. What is it that our elected officials in Washington D.C. don’t understand? The majority of Americans want the social safety net that they were promised to actually be there and without any cuts.

Social Security has been around since 1935 and is the most effective government run program in this nation’s history. Before its enactment over 75% of the nation’s senior citizens lived in poverty. Today the poverty rate for elderly Americans is right around 10% and over 9 million disabled people are on social security; 6.5 million widowed families also receive social security payments. There are a lot of Americans depending on the Big 3.

Democrats need to find or grow some backbone and ensure that shared sacrifice is indeed shared. The working poor and the middle class have already sacrificed. It is time for the rich and corporations to dig deep and sacrifice, the time for just contributing is over, sacrifice those Bush tax cuts, their corporate jets, and obscene profits.