NAACP: Social Security Plan Hurts Blacks

[truthpusher]

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050219/APA/502190879

Published Saturday, February 19, 2005

NAACP: Social Security Plan Hurts Blacks

By ERIN TEXEIRA
AP National Writer
NEW YORK

Denouncing President Bush's plan for Social Security reform as one that would disproportionately hurt blacks, NAACP leaders asked to meet with the president to discuss the issue, the NAACP chairman announced Saturday.

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"This proposal is extremely dangerous to us," said Hilary O. Shelton, the NAACP's Washington bureau chief.

Among married couples, twice as many blacks as whites rely on Social Security for their entire retirement income, and blacks in their 50s are twice as likely to become disabled as whites, he said.

But Bush says blacks would stand to benefit from his privatization plan because, on average, they die earlier than whites and would not have to wait until retirement to receive benefits.

That argument has rankled many black leaders who denounced the president for trying to capitalize on the life-expectancy problem - one they say is rooted in health disparities and urban violence - rather than solve it.

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http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050219/APA/502190879

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Between this and

his goofy comments about the Voting Rights Act, it is hard to imagine any African Americans supporting the shrub (well, except for Condi).

[TahitiNut]

3. The schism between blacks and whites ...

... only benefits the golds. Both blacks and whites have become golds and, when seduced by the faux-righteousness of collecting wealth created by the labors of others, their interest in eradicating the schism transforms itself into willing exploitation.

Blood may be thicker than water, both gold is thicker than either.

[Cha]

2. Of course it does and the poorer people

of any race in the US..me for instance.

I like what AARP had to say about it in my latest newsletter.

THE SOLUTION SHOULDN'T BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM-
NO PRIVATE ACCOUNTS WITH SOCIAL SECURITY DOLLARS!


I guess AARP isn't so "non-partisan", anymore!