Dear Mr President

Regarding your lame attempt to explain why you put Social Security, Medicare and Veterans Benefits cuts in your proposed budget, you should be ashamed of yourself, screwing so many who worked and sacrificed so much for America. For what? To reach some kind of bargain with those who have done nothing for this country? You say this is not your ideal plan, well Hell, why not put your ideal plan on the table? Your Republican friends aren't going to give you anything that might look like a win for you. Better to put your ideal plan on the table, without SSI & Medicare, and use it to beat them to a pulp in '14 so you can get a Democratic House. The other option is that it is true that your two elections are Karl Rove's greatest successes.