Send a Penny to the White House...Cutting Social Security Makes NO Cents!

jtown1123

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Wed Jan-19-11 11:40 AM
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Send a Penny to the White House...Cutting Social Security Makes NO Cents!

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare has a new Penny Campaign leading up to the President's State of the Union. To convince him not to consider Social Security cuts, they are urging their members and supporters to print out the following letter and mail it to the White House.

http://www.ncpssm.org/pdf/Cutting_Social_Security_Makes_No_Cents.pdf

Hope you send one too!

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snappyturtle

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Wed Jan-19-11 11:44 AM
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1. AGAIN, thanks jtown....nt

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jtown1123

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Wed Jan-19-11 01:52 PM
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7. You're very welcome snappyturtle.

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snappyturtle

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Wed Jan-19-11 11:46 AM
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2. I have had quite enough of DU this morning....who woulds un-rec this?

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Hello_Kitty

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Wed Jan-19-11 12:17 PM
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3. I got it up to 5.

Yeah, DU is in full hippie punching mode this morning.

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jtown1123

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Wed Jan-19-11 01:51 PM
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6. I really don't understand what's so objectionable about this...isn't protecting SS a good thing?

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snappyturtle

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Wed Jan-19-11 02:10 PM
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9. I have always looked at it as a cornerstone of being a Democrat.

May be that this has incited some trolls!?

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jtown1123

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Wed Jan-19-11 02:15 PM
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10. Perhaps? I think the same thing. Here's a new video from the Strengthen SS Coalition

http://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/?p=1523

Goes along with the original post.

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dragonlady

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Wed Jan-19-11 12:18 PM
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4. Just a reminder

Postal mail to the White House and Congress goes through a screening facility and takes quite a while to be delivered. Letters mailed today are unlikely to reach the White House within this time frame.

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jtown1123

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Wed Jan-19-11 01:52 PM
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8. Oh dear, thanks! Still doesn't hurt. He still needs reminding after the SOTU.

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vssmith

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Wed Jan-19-11 01:00 PM
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5. Americans have paid $2.5 trillion more into SS than they have received in benefits

Problem is that this surplus money has been spent and replaced with IOUs. A good part of the US debt is owed to the SS trust fund and politicians don't want to pay it back.

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