Archive for January, 2010
Fast-track Commission Derailed in Senate
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010… Seniors Applaud today’s Senate Vote Defeating Conrad/Gregg’s Fast Track Commission Following is our press statement after the vote: “America’s seniors understand what this commission proposal has been all about from the beginning—finding a way to balance the budget on the back of Social Security. For too long, fiscal hawks have tried to blame Social [...]
Should Middle Class workers and Seniors Pay America’s Debt Bill?
Monday, January 25th, 2010A USA Today’s editorial tells us they should. “Yet whenever someone says the popular programs need to be trimmed, the “don’t-touch-my-Medicare” and “don’t-touch-my Social Security” lobbies come out in full force. As long as Democrats refuse to curb benefits and Republicans refuse to raise taxes, the country slips ever closer to disaster. To be sure, [...]
The Status Quo is Not an Option for Seniors in Medicare
Friday, January 22nd, 2010There’s been plenty of hand-wringing, Monday morning quarterbacking and fortune telling about what the Democrats’ loss of 60 votes in the Senate really means for health care reform. Any way you cut it…it can’t be good. The current system doesn’t work and we simply can’t allow political tide shifts to stop vital health care reforms. [...]
National Call-In Day Underway
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Tomorrow the Senate will consider a proposal to create a fast-track commission targeting Social Security and Medicare for cuts. Fiscal hawks in Congress have selectively redefined our debt and deficit problem in order to fit their preconceived solutions — cutting Social Security and Medicare – and they see this commission as the best political [...]
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 [...]
What’s on your Mind?
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010The White House wants to know. Really. As President Obama wraps up his first year in office, the White House is providing access to administration advisors throughout the week on a variety of topics. Each day a senior advisor will provide a guest blog post. Then, in the afternoon, that advisor will host a live [...]
Fast Tracking Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Our New Web Video details the New Year’s surprise Fiscal Hawks hope to Deliver to millions of Americans in 2010 The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare has produced a new video on Congressional proposals to create an Entitlement Commission targeting massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare. The Commission plans would put [...]
When Propaganda Trumps Truth
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010UPDATE: The Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander has completed his investigation of the Post’s outrageous relationship with Pete Peterson’s pseudo-news agency “The Fiscal Times”. In short, he found that because the reporter in question used to work for the Post, and because the Post editors came up with the original story idea and signed off [...]
What Will a Billion Dollars Buy You?
Monday, January 4th, 2010For multi-billionaire businessman Pete Peterson it buys you a foundation in your name devoted to cutting so-called “entitlements”, a movie crafted to scare Americans into believing we can’t afford Social Security and Medicare (IOUSA), an online “news service” to pass off your anti-entitlement views as news and even the Washington Post to run these advocacy [...]