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Friday, September 3rd, 2010House Republican leaders have given Americans a glimpse of the GOP agenda to privatize Social Security and end Medicare as we know it. The messengers for this campaign immodestly call themselves the “Young Guns”. Unfortunately, what they’ve really taken aim at are the benefits working Americans have paid for throughout their lives. In an over-the-top [...]
The War Against Social Security Continues…
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Ashley Carson, OWL Executive Director, Guest Blogger Today, the fiscal commission met to discuss how to bring our country’s finances under control, and again the conversation led directly to Social Security. This is always shocking because Social Security did not contribute a penny to our current financial woes. Instead, Social Security has created an enormous surplus [...]
New National Poll Finds 78% of Americans Oppose Raising Social Security’s Retirement Age
Thursday, July 15th, 2010The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Foundation has released a new poll on American’s views on Social Security, proposals for raising the retirement age, and cutting benefits. The national telephone poll, conducted June 24-June 30th by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, shows a growing disconnect between the average American’s economic [...]
America’s Budget Matters (So Does Yours)
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010When Older Americans Month was established in 1963, only 17 million Americans had reached their 65th birthdays. About a third of older Americans lived in poverty and there were few programs to meet their needs. Today, our senior population has more than doubled and thanks to the passage of Medicare and the Older Americans Act, our [...]
Foreign Bankers, Low Hanging Fruit and Social Security
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010In these days of billion dollar public relations campaigns designed to convince the American people that somehow Social Security must foot the bill for a decade of unrelated fiscal failures, the headlines hardly surprise us anymore. But today on CNN Money we came across something which has really set the bar for balanced media coverage [...]
Fiscal Commission Begins its Work
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010The President’s Fiscal Commission held its first meeting in Washington today. No real surprises here, with the standard promises of non-partisanship, while at the same time both sides expressed very different views of how to meet the President’s call to reduce the deficit. One thing is clear; the future of Social Security is at the [...]
Sorting Fiscal Fact from Fiction
Monday, April 26th, 2010Here are Just a Few Things Americans Need to Know about Debt, Deficits, and Social Security The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform holds its inaugural session tomorrow and it’s clear that cutting Social Security is a top priority for many commission members. Barbara Kennelly, President/COE of The National Committee to Preserve Social Security [...]
Americans Need Social Security
Friday, April 23rd, 2010When you think of the people in your life who receive Social Security, do these descriptions fit? Are they..? “70- and 80-year-old people living in gated communities, driving their Lexus to the Perkins Restaurant to get the AARP discount. I mean, it’s unbelievable. ” Fiscal Commission co-chair, former Senator Alan Simpson, NPR, April 2010 Do they [...]
The Campaign Against Social Security
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010So far this week, we’ve talked about the upcoming Presidential Fiscal Commission meeting, debt, deficits, and Social Security. At this point, it’s fair to ask, why would Social Security become the primary target for this commission? While Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says, “That’s where the money is” we also looked to history for the answer. The [...]
The Money You’ve Contributed to Social Security Is Real Money No Matter What Fiscal Hawks Claim
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Central to persuading Americans that Social Security is broken is the meme offered by President Bush during his privatization campaign 5 years ago, that there is no trust fund or on alternate days that the trust fund is full of worthless IOU’s. This failed pitch is still the cornerstone of the fiscal hawks’ campaign to erode public [...]
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