Posts Tagged ‘Social Security’
WSJ/NBC Poll: Hands Off Medicare, Social Security
Many Deem Big Cuts to Entitlements ‘Unacceptable,’ but Retirement and Means Testing Draw Support By NEIL KING JR. and SCOTT GREENBERG for the WSJ – WASHINGTON— Less than a quarter of Americans support making significant cuts to Social Security or Medicare to tackle the country’s mounting deficit, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News…
Read MoreAction Alert: State of the Union
Tonight, President Obama will deliver the State of the Union Address to those who are anxiously waiting to hear what he will say about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. While President Obama has stated he will not urge cuts to Social Security in his speech tonight, a narrowly defeated proposal by the Deficit Commission to…
Read MoreDeficit Commission Slashes Taxes For Wealthy, Corporations, While Raising Retirement Age And Cutting Spending
By Ryan Grim for Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — The president’s deficit commission report, scheduled for a vote by the full panel on Friday, proposes to slash tax rates for corporations and for high earners. The top tax rate is currently 35 percent and is scheduled to rise to 39.6 percent in 2011. The commission…
Read MoreNo Cuts – Call Today!
Tell Congress: Don’t Cut Our Social Security and Medicare programs. CALL TODAY. Join today’s National Call Congress Day and tell your Representative and Senators to SAY NO to cutting our Social Security and Medicare. Call 866-220-0044 for the capitol switchboard and ask to be connected. Don’t know your Representative or Senators? Go here. The Co-Chairs…
Read MoreLet’s Save Medicare!
The Deficit Commission just released the chairman’s mark to propose how to reduce the national deficit, a problem integrally linked to the rising cost of healthcare. Among its draconian ideas, the cochairs proposal would require Medicare recipients to pay more out of pocket costs for the services they receive–meaning higher copays. Studies show that cost…
Read MoreNot Just Simpson, but Entire Deficit Commission Must Go
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Katie Robbins, National Organizer, Healthcare NOW!, katie@healthcare-now.org, 330-618-6379 Kay Tillow, All Unions for Single-Payer Health Care, nursenpo@aol.com, 502-636-1551 Not Just Simpson, but Entire Deficit Commission Must Go September 8, 2010 (Philadelphia, PA) – After months of meetings behind closed doors, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, aka the Deficit…
Read MoreDisband the Deficit Commission
Former Senator Alan Simpson, who called Social Security a milk cow with 310 million tits, clearly doesn’t have the facts on Social Security if he is implying we’re all milking the system. Simpson co-chairs the Commission with Erskine Bowles, who thinks the government is spending way too much, claiming, “All of our revenue is completely…
Read MoreAction Alert: Social Security turns 75 on August 14th!
Social Security turns 75 on August 14th! Join the Alliance for Retired Americans in celebrations and actions (.pdf) across the country. In its 75 years of existence, Social Security has not added a cent to our country’s budget deficit. Nevertheless, even as the baby boomers begin to retire, some fiscal conservatives have labeled Social Security…
Read MoreHealth Care Supporters Say “Hands Off Our Medicare!”
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Katie Robbins, National Organizer, Healthcare NOW! healthcarenow08@gmail.com 330-618-6379 Donna Smith, National Nurses United donnas@calnurses.org, 773-617-4493 Kay Tillow, All Unions for Single Payer-HR 676 nursenpo@aol.com 502-636-1551 Sandy Fox, Western PA Coalition for Single Payer Health Care sm2fox@yahoo.com 412-527-9072 Health Care Supporters Say “Hands Off Our Medicare!” Don’t let Congress Cut…
Read MoreDon’t Gamble with Our Social Security
Andy Stern, a key member of the president’s deficit commission, proposes to invest a part of our Social Security funds in the stock market. Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal think tank, has expressed approval for Stern’s proposal. “I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad idea,” said Baker.…
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