New group formed to fight against Bush's SS scam!

At the urging of Democratic leaders in Congress, a few political campaign veterans have formed Americans United to Protect Social Security. The nonprofit organization with close ties to organized labor plans to raise $25 million to $50 million to pressure lawmakers to vote against Bush's proposal.

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Friday's Question:

President Bush's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin is just the most recent meeting between representatives of the two countries. Which of the following people, who would go on to become president, was the first official representative of the United States to travel to Russia?
John Quincy Adams
James Buchanan
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson

"At Americans United to Protect Social Security, we are going to run a national campaign to defeat the president's privatization plan," said Brad Woodhouse, the group's spokesman and the former communications director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "The president and his supporters in Congress are messing with the third rail ; we're going to make sure they get zapped."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51517-2005Feb24.html?referrer=email


THANK GOD some groups that either have or can get $$ are jumping on this!!!

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Didn't his daughter take her own life?

(Before you flame me , bear in mind that the Reeps would mention it if the shoe were on the other foot...)

That is a myth. Go visit Snopes-dot-com at this link:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/linklttr.htm


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FOX News has repeatedly hosted representatives of USA Next, a conservative lobbying group formerly known as the United Seniors Association (USA), who have come on the network to attack the AARP, a chief opponent of President Bush's plans to privatize Social Security. Among USA Next's claims articulated on FOX are that the AARP is "the world's largest left, liberal lobbying organization in the world" that is "definitely against traditional values." USA Next's chairman and chief executive, Charles W. Jarvis, and its national chairman, entertainer Art Linkletter, have appeared on FOX News three times in the past ten days. But despite the fact that the group has spent millions of dollars to support Republican candidates and policies, was founded and is currently led by prominent Republicans, and is advised by Republican consultants, FOX News did not identify USA Next as Republican -- or even conservative -- in any appearance by Jarvis or Linkletter.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200502250004