Fear and Loathing in Boca Over Budget Cuts

摘要

When President Barack Obama says he's willing to take "significant heat" from Democrats who don't want Social Security and Medicare cuts to be part of a debt deal, he doesn't mean Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi. He's talking about guys like Mel Safra, 70, owner of Bagel Time in Miami Beach. "It's very sad," says Safra, who wanted to retire by now but puts in 12-hour days at his kosher bakery, "this idea that you can take away money from the elderly who've worked for 40 or 50 years."