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  • Let’s Stop the Republican Debt Slavery Act in the House
    13 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many progressives are mourning the failure of Senate Democrats to filibuster the Republican Debt Slavery Act of 2005, commonly known as the Bankruptcy Bill.
    As Mother Jones said, Don’t Mourn, Organize!
    Let’s stop the Republican Debt Slavery Act dead in the House.
    What’s that I hear out there? Is someone insisting, "House Democrats can’t stop Tom DeLay’s brutal legislative steamroller!"
    The hell we can’t.
    House Republicans are already running for their lives over Social Security (…)

  • What A Rich Nation Should Really Be Doing About Social Security
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Gar Alperovitz Listening to the debate between the Administration and even its most adventurous critics one would imagine that only an extremely limited range of Social Security options are even conceivable. One would also imagine that we live in an extremely poor society which is ultimately going to have to find ways to squeeze its seniors financially or somehow we will all perish. The truth is radically different.
    This is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. A serious (…)

  • Bush Administration using Social Security Administration to scare up support for privatization
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Report Details the Politicization of the Social Security Administration Under President Bush
    WASHINGTON - Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, and Rep. Sander M. Levin, along with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, and Reps. Obey, Miller, and DeLauro, released a new report that shows how the Social Security Administration has modified its communications strategy to undermine public confidence in Social Security.
    The report, based on a review (…)

  • How to Talk to a Conservative About Social Security
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The White House and their deep-pocketed allies have launched a $35 million public relations effort
    to spread misinformation about President Bush’s Social Security privatization scheme. This fact sheet will arm you with all the facts you’ll need to take them on.
    Fiscal Outlook
    Claim: “By the year 2042, the entire system would be exhausted and bankrupt.” [President Bush, 2/2/05]
    Fact: In 2042, enough new money will be coming in to pay between 73-80 percent of promised benefits. Even (…)

  • Bush Broke his Promise on Social Security
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush 2001 vs. Bush 2005, when and why did he change his mind?
    Bush in the 2001 State of the Union: "To make sure the retirement savings of America’s seniors are not diverted to any other program, my budget protects all $2.6 trillion of the Social Security surplus for Social Security, and for Social Security alone."
    Bush Feb 9, 2005 - "The money-payroll taxes going into the Social Security are spent. They’re spent on benefits and they’re spent on government programs. There is no (…)

  • Bush Says Social Security Trust Fund Doesn’t Exist
    12 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush slipped something new into his Social Security pitch on Wednesday. And it was there again twice yesterday.
    He says Social Security’s $1.8 trillion trust fund doesn’t really exist. Even in Washington, that’s a lot of money to go missing.
    Here is Bush, from the transcript of his talk at the Commerce Department on Wednesday:
    "Some in our country think that Social Security is a trust fund — in other words, there’s a pile of money being accumulated. That’s just simply not (…)

  • Kucinich: Proposed Social Security price indexing would slash benefits
    10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Social Security’s “Sleeper Issue”: Price Indexing Exposed By Kucinich
    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today brought forth a new case against the Administration’s so-called Social Security reform plan by exposing the precipitous drop in future retiree benefits implicit in the Administration plan to switch from wage indexing to price indexing.
    In a speech this morning on the House floor, Kucinich said:
    “Social Security benefits have increased over the years because they long have (…)

  • RNC sends threatening letter to news media about social security ads
    9 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SOUTH BEND — At least part of the Social Security debate focused on the 2nd Congressional District again Friday, as the Republican National Committee sent letters to local television stations asking them not to air what it calls a "false TV ad" promoted by MoveOn.org.
    Washington, D.C.-based MoveOn.org immediately issued a statement defending the accuracy of its ad, which began airing on local stations Tuesday and which is critical of the president’s plan to revamp Social Security.
    The (…)

  • Social Security Crisis: The Trust Fund is Already Empty
    5 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WINTER HAVEN, Fla.
    Economist and author Allen W. Smith, Ph.D., argues that the biggest obstacle to getting clear debate on the Social Security problem is the misinformation that continues to be spread by the AARP and others who argue that the trust fund holds real assets. "It is amazing how many people, including some Social Security experts, still just don’t get it!" Smith said. "Weisbrot and Baker continue to spread the myth that, ’The Social Security trust fund will have more than $3.7 (…)

  • Don’t use FDR to undermine Social Security
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IN HIS inaugural address, President George W. Bush invoked the name of my grandfather, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as part of his campaign to privatize Social Security. Similarly, a political organization supporting that drastic change recently ran a television commercial using a newsreel clip showing President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law. The implication that FDR would support privatization of America’s greatest national program is an attempt to deceive the (…)