...Tell Congress Not to Wreck It
(I received this e-mail from True Majority and thought I'd share it with DU.)
Social Security was created after the national tragedy of the Great Depression left many senior citizens without the simple necessities of food and shelter. It's worked well by dramatically reducing poverty among retired and disabled Americans, and by supporting folks who have had hard breaks in life.
Left unattended, the Social Security fund indeed will run into trouble in a few decades. Yet the "remedy" President Bush is pushing will not address the projected shortfall, and instead will drive up government borrowing dramatically. Many analysts believe that is actually the president's goal. His advisors call it "Starving the Beast" -- intentionally soaking up so much of the federal budget paying off the additional debt that there will be less money available to invest in human needs programs.
There are much more rational adjustments that can be made to the Social Security program. These adjustments will protect retirees now and into the future, and they'll avoid running up the debt.
Help your elected representatives have the backbone to stand up to the president and refuse to wreck Social Security while borrowing our grandchildren into crushing debt.
If you're a TrueMajority member and you would like to send a message (text below) to your Members of Congress urging them to oppose Bush's plan to privatize Social Security, just click "reply" and "send" to send your free message (text below). If this was forwarded to you, or if you would like to customize the message to your lawmaker, click here:http://truemajority.kintera.org/socialsecurityI'd recommend that everyone who can copy (and modify) the suggested text so it doesn't look like astroturf and send it to as many congresspeople as possible.
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