Town Halls support needed for Medicare and Social Security - The fight is just beginning!

Healthcare-NOW! http://www.healthcare-now.org/ sent this email out today:

For decades, Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson has been trying to privatize or get rid of Social Security and Medicare.

Now he is funding AmericaSpeaks, a private company that is organizing town hall meetings with citizens across the country on Saturday, June 26th.

Pete Peterson wants to use these meetings to shape the national discussion so they can provide feedback to the President's newly appointed Fiscal Commission, an 18-member group charged with giving Congress a report next December on how to reduce the national deficit. This commission is stacked heavily in favor of slashing benefits in both Medicare and Social Security. On top of that, the commission's staff is being provided by Peterson's Foundation.

We need to attend these meetings on Saturday to speak up for Social Security and Medicare. Let's keep it simple. These programs didn't cause the deficit problems. Two wars and tax cuts to the wealthy did.

Social Security and Medicare have proven to be the most successful social programs in our nation's history, without which the poverty rate for seniors would be 48% instead of 10%.
By implementing an improved Medicare for All program, as in HR 676, real cost controls can be used to save money and get the economy back on track by negotiating drug prices, budgeting for hospitals, and reducing the outrageous administrative waste that consumes more than a third of our health care dollars.

Sign up to attend a town hall meeting organized by AmericaSpeaks here:

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5874/p/salsa/event/common/public/search.sjs?distributed_event_KEY=127

Your voice is needed in these meetings to defend these critical programs..

Stay tuned for more details on rallies at the town halls across the nation in support of Medicare and Social Security. This fight is just beginning.

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So we have to keep up the "fight" and keep electing people that'll help us "fight" (who may never actually try to end the "fight", and therefore, lose a campaign plank).

This entire mess could of been ended. Instead, some direction-less, "post-partisan" approach laced with capitulation was orchestrated that solved very little, if anything.

and allow the teahadists and freepers to dominate the debate. This is way too important.

Will they really turn up at meetings to advocate cutting their own throats?

Any politicians who back cutting these programs is asking for trouble.

rally for those who support the deficit hawks and teabagger crazies.

This is letting people know what is going on out there and who is backing this insanity! If we are silent this kind of "voice" for privitization will be the only one heard in these "meetings"! Speak up! Protest! Do something!:banghead: