How YOU can help Protect Social Security Against Lies and Cuts

[jtown1123]

What Can We Do?
By NCPSSM | November 24, 2010


It’s one of the most frequently asked questions we get from seniors and their families tired of the well-financed campaign to sell cuts in Social Security and Medicare for working Americans while at the same time keeping tax cuts for the wealthy.

The Fiscal Commission chairmen’s (Bowles/Simpson) plan targets Social Security for large benefit cuts, lower COLA’s and a higher retirement age (even though the program hasn’t contributed a dime to our debt) while also, according to the Economic Policy Institute, costing 4 million jobs over three years and reducing economic growth by 0.7 percent in 2012, 1.4 percent in 2013 and 1.9 percent in 2014. EPI says,

"A better path to fiscal responsibility would be investing in job creation and growth to broaden the revenue base in the near-term, raising revenue from new sources over the medium-term to stem the hemorrhaging caused by the Bush-era tax cuts for the very well-off, and reforming health care provision to generate long-run budgetary savings. In the present economic environment, the near-term austerity measures proposed by the Co-Chairs would be fiscally counterproductive and crippling to states, communities, and families, delaying a robust economic recovery for years.
In spite of all this, plans like Bowles/Simpson, are being pushed by fiscal hawks in the media and in television ad campaigns as the only way to fiscal solvency while ignoring other options, like Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s plan, which actually takes the economic realities facing working Americans into consideration."

Thus, we come back to our headline… What can WE (meaning non-Wall Street multi-billionaires) do to ensure our voices our heard? The answer is easy — Join the nationwide call-in day to Congress on Tuesday, November 30th. That’s the day before the Fiscal Commission is expected to release its final report to Congress and the perfect opportunity to let your representatives in Washington know that cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits is a one-way ticket to economic and political ruin.

Our National Committee Legislative Action Hotline will connect you with your members in one toll-free call. Save the number and Mark your Calendars for:

National Call Congress Day
800-998-0180


We’ll provide an update and more details about this nationwide campaign after the holiday. Until then – stay tuned and Spread the Word!

http://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/

[Hannah Bell]

1. kr

[rfranklin]

2. The point is Social Security is being robbed to preserve low taxes...

for the uber wealthy. We paid fully for the Baby Boomers with the increase that Reagan and Greenspan instituted. Now, these Republicans and their bipartisan allies don't want to pay back what they borrowed. Social Security has never created a deficit and cannot by law. The only solution to the deficit is to stop spending as much on the military as the rest of the world combined and to raise taxes on the uberwealthy. Sorry Simpson, your suggestions are rejected!

[jtown1123]

3. Bingo! They don't want to pay up and they need to finance those tax cuts somehow. Sickening.

[liberal N proud]

4. Exactly

But they are doing everything they can to cut it in the name of deficits.

[jtown1123]

5. Yupp. They've been trying to cut it for decades. Now they do it in the face of "being brave"

about deficits and being "adult." Excuse me while I vomit.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. Still trying to undo the New Deal and destroy the legacy of FDR...

ever since the days of Gen. Smedley Butler...