Three New Social Security Truth Truck Tours Destined for Lawmakers' Dist

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WASHINGTON, April 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Building on the success of its 16-stop, six-state Social Security Truth Truck Tour of the East Coast, The Alliance for Retired Americans today announced three additional tours will visit New England, the Upper Midwest, and Northwest between May and July. The centerpiece of the tour is a flatbed truck carrying more than a million messages to Congress from seniors against privatizing Social Security.

"The first Truth Truck Tour was so successful in enabling seniors to express their concerns to Members of Congress about the short and long-term dangers of privatizing Social Security that we wanted to bring this message to other parts of the country," said George J. Kourpias, president of the Alliance, a nationwide grassroots organization representing more than 3 million seniors and retirees. "These three additional tours will visit the states and districts of key Members of Congress as a way of making local seniors' views loud and clear to their elected representatives: don't privatize Social Security."
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"The president didn't realize when he decided to invent the Social Security 'crisis' that he was actually creating a crisis of his own," Kourpias said. "He chose to focus his attentions on young Americans and tried to create a new notion of what retirement security should be about. What he didn't bargain for, or chose to ignore, was the reaction of seniors. They know, as most Americans today agree, that Social Security needs to be fixed. It needs to be strengthened so that it can pay the guaranteed benefits Americans earn and deserve for generations to come."

Itinerary for the New England leg of the next Social Security Truth Truck Tour: Thousands of Miles, Millions of Voices:

Monday, May 2: Bangor & Portland, Maine

Tuesday, May 3: Montpellier, Vermont

Wednesday, May 4: Concord, New Hampshire

Thursday, May 5: East Providence, Rhode Island

Friday May 6: New Britain & Bridgeport, Connecticut

Details for each stop are available upon request.

A tour of the Upper Midwest is planned for early June and the truck will visit the Northwest in early July. Details and itineraries for those tours will be available in the coming weeks.

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