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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Next month, America’s most successful and popular government program will mark 75 years of serving millions of workers who’ve retired, become disabled or leave survivors after their death. Today, more than 50 million people receive Social Security benefits, touching the lives of virtually every American family. In celebration of this milestone, the National Committee to [...]
Social Security and the Fiscal Commission
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010The President’s Fiscal Commission has set aside today as the day they’ll hear from the “public”. Of course, that’s the public as defined by Washington which is largely advocacy and interest groups. The event is being streamed online here. Our President/CEO, Barbara Kennelly, speaks to the panel today and has focused her remarks on the [...]
Will “AmericaSpeaks” Speak for You?
Friday, June 25th, 2010Tomorrow, thousands of Americans nationwide will be asked their opinions on how to bring fiscal sanity back to Washington. National “town hall meetings” are being hosted by America Speaks –with funding from the Kellogg, MacArthur, and Peterson Foundations ( Peterson is a leading proponent of cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits in the name of “fiscal responsibility”). [...]
Playing Politics with Medicare…again
Monday, June 21st, 2010On Friday, the fees that Medicare pays to doctors dropped 21 percent because Congress hasn’t been able to pass legislation to prevent the cut. While the Senate passed a bill that day to postpone the rate cut for another 6 months, the House now must vote on the legislation. Reports are, Speaker Pelosi, is not [...]
Ahhh…the Good Old Days…Debtor’s Prisons and No Entitlements
Thursday, June 10th, 2010Apparently, these are the “good-old days” our nation’s fiscal hawks relish. The Peterson Foundation’s David Walker co-hosted CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning (personally, we yearn for the good-old days when so-called “news” shows were hosted by journalists—not partisan advocates—but that’s another debate). The discussion followed the classic Peterson Foundation talking points—government bad, business good—but ultimately [...]
If We Truly Care About America’s Future We’ll Cut Social Security…Right?
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010This is one of the deficit hawk’s favorite frames as they continue to rachet up their campaign to balance our federal books with cuts in Social Security. Their logic, expressed repeatedly at yesterday’s Presidential Fiscal Commission and again today at Pete Peterson’s fiscal extravaganza in Washington, goes something like this: We (meaning you—definitely not Wall [...]
The Roadmap to Privatization
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010It appears the GOP Budget philosophy is…if at first you don’t succeed with a failed idea try, try again (and again, and again.) This week the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan, reintroduced his “Roadmap for America’s Future”. In short, it is a budget plan which decimates Social Security and Medicare in [...]
Seniors Mobilize in Opposition to Fast-track Commission Targeting Cuts to Social Security
Friday, January 15th, 2010Next week we’ll kick off our radio and print advocacy campaign in Washington urging Congress to oppose creation of a fast-track entitlement commission. Our National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare members and supporters have made it clear they oppose creating a commission which targets cuts to the very programs, which have kept seniors afloat during [...]
This Picture is Truly Worth a $Billion Words
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010We’ve written a lot this New Year about the Peterson Foundation’s billion dollar campaign to persuade Americans that we can’t afford Social Security and Medicare…especially the organization’s ongoing efforts to persuade Congress to create a commission targeting these programs for cuts. A Senate vote on the commission proposal is expected anytime after they return, January 20.th [...]
Congressional Commission Goes on the Naughty List
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Santa Paws will be barking mad when learns that fiscal conservatives want to appoint a Congressional commission to cut Social Security and Medicare. Find out who makes Santa Paws Naughty and Nice lists in this lighthearted holiday greeting from the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
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