11.   As the government cuts benefits, that should increase the demand for private insurance.

12.   Because the portion of the population in retirement will swell in the next few decades, both programs face insolvency unless benefits are cut or revenues are increased.

13.   Beneficiaries repeatedly say Medicare fraud should be eliminated before their benefits are cut or premiums or co-payments are increased.

14.   -- Cutting benefits also seems a non-starter.

15.   Advocates for the poor said Thursday that they would file lawsuits based on that mandate to assure that the state did not cut benefits too much.

16.   Bush also chided Gore for a telephone campaign that Bush said is designed to make senior citizens believe their benefits will be cut under Bush.

17.   But critics of the legislation warn that it will hurt lower income workers by discouraging some employers from offering plans and by encouraging some others to cut future benefits.

18.   But even longtime political allies of business in the Kohl government have expressed dismay at the decision to cut sick pay benefits without renegotiating the union contract.

19.   But challenged the crowd not to get angry if Congress started cutting particular benefits they might be receiving now from the government.

20.   But he said laying off public workers and cutting pension benefits were not the answers.