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Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:19:44 -0400

"Ghosts have nothing on some of the ideas that come out of Washington when it comes to rattling..."

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:54:18 -0400

“Ghosts have nothing on some of the ideas that come out of Washington when it comes to rattling chains and knocking pictures off the wall to terrify the common people. Case in point: the privatization of Social Security.”

- http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120821,0,1818705.column

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Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:14:58 -0400

Medicare Voucher Plan Remains Unpopular | Pew Research Center

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:52:13 -0400

Medicare Voucher Plan Remains Unpopular | Pew Research Center :

sarahlee310:

The survey, conducted August 16-19, 2012 among 1,005 adults nationwide, finds 72% have heard a lot or a little about a proposal to change Medicare into a program that would give future participants a credit toward purchasing private health insurance coverage. And among those who are aware, the idea remains unpopular; by a 49% to 34% margin more oppose than favor the idea. This is virtually unchanged from public reactions a little over a year ago, when Republicans in the House voted in favor of this proposal as part of the “Ryan plan.”

The survey, conducted August 16-19, 2012 among 1,005 adults nationwide, finds 72% have heard a lot or a little about a proposal to change Medicare into a program that would give future participants a credit toward purchasing private health insurance coverage. And among those who are aware, the idea remains unpopular; by a 49% to 34% margin more oppose than favor the idea. This is virtually unchanged from public reactions a little over a year ago, when Republicans in the House voted in favor of this proposal as part of the “Ryan plan.”

Good numbers showing that people oppose the idea of getting a check that doesn’t actually keep up with the costs of medical care.

Sign our Petition to Support Joe Biden's Comment's on Social Security!

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:33:47 -0400

Sign our Petition to Support Joe Biden's Comment's on Social Security!:

Vice President Joe Biden recently said that, “I guarantee you, flat guarantee you, there will be no changes in Social Security.” Sign this and send a message to the President and the Democrats that you support these types of policies!

danacbell: From the National Women’s Law Center, a reminder...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:14:54 -0400

danacbell:

From the National Women’s Law Center, a reminder that Social Security is classic American.

ourpresidents: On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D....

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:13:28 -0400

ourpresidents:

On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act.

Later that day, the Washington Post proclaimed that the Social Security Act was the “New Deal’s Most Important Act…Its importance cannot be exaggerated …because this legislation eventually will affect the lives of every man, woman, and child in the country.”

This poster was distributed from November 1936- July 1937 during the initial issuance of Social Security numbers through U.S. post offices and with the help of labor unions.

More - Posters from the Social Security Archives

Great poster!

ncpssm: A coalition of Wisconsin activists, including NCPSSM...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:00:36 -0400

ncpssm:

A coalition of Wisconsin activists, including NCPSSM Rally Corps members, attended an event to protest the privatizing of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Dems slam Ryan over Social Security privatization - Yahoo! News

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:25:45 -0400

Dems slam Ryan over Social Security privatization - Yahoo! News:

justinspoliticalcorner:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are eagerly renewing their fight against privatizing Social Security now that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. It was a fight that didn’t go well for the GOP when President George W. Bush pushed the idea in 2005.

In his 2010 “Road Map for America’s Future,” the Wisconsin congressman proposed a plan to allow younger workers to divert more than one-third of their Social Security taxes into personal accounts that they would own and could will to their heirs.

Ryan wrote that the accounts would provide workers an opportunity “to build a significant nest egg for retirement that far exceeds what the current program can provide.” Workers 55 and older would stay in the current system.

Romney hasn’t embraced the proposal and Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, didn’t include it in either of the federal budgets passed by House Republicans the past two years. But now that Ryan is running for vice president, Democrats hope to capitalize on the issue.

Bush’s proposal for private accounts received a chilly reception from members in both parties in Congress, though Ryan embraced it. Democrats used the issue against GOP congressional candidates in the 2006 election, when they regained control of the House and Senate.

“The very last thing we ought to be doing is putting at risk the retirement security of millions of America’s seniors,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, who heads the Democratic National Committee.

Until now, Social Security had been largely absent from the presidential campaign. President Barack Obama has yet to lay out a detailed plan for addressing the issue, and his silence is drawing criticism from advocates who supported him in the past. Romney has been more forthcoming with proposals, but Social Security has not been a big part of his campaign, either.

Romney, in his book, “No Apology,” said he liked the idea of personal accounts. But, he wrote, “Given the volatility of investment values that we have just experienced, I would prefer that individual accounts were added to Social Security, not diverted from it, and that they were voluntary.”

Romney’s current plan for Social Security doesn’t mention personal accounts. Instead, he proposes a gradual increase in the retirement age to account for growing life expectancy. For future generations, Romney would slow the growth of benefits “for those with higher incomes.”

“Mitt Romney and Paul support gradual reforms to Social Security that protect current beneficiaries from any benefit disruptions while strengthening the program to ensure that it doesn’t go bankrupt,” Romney campaign spokesman Ryan Williams said.

The trustees who oversee Social Security say the trust funds that support the program will run dry in 2033. At that point, Social Security will generate only enough tax revenue to pay about 75 percent of benefits, triggering automatic cuts unless Congress acts.

During the 2008 campaign, Obama said he wanted to improve Social Security’s finances by applying the payroll tax to annual wages above $250,000. It is now limited to wages below $110,100, a level that increases with inflation.

Obama also pledged to oppose raising the retirement age or reducing annual cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs. “Let me be clear, I will not do either,” Obama said at the time.

Last year, however, Obama put on the table a proposal to reduce annual COLAs during deficit-reduction talks with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. The talks ultimately failed and nothing came of the proposal, but it raised questions about whether Obama would honor his 2008 pledge.

h/t: Yahoo! News

A nice reminder that both Romney AND Ryan supported privatizing Social Security in the not-so-distant past.

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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:50:16 -0400

ncpssm: Happy 77th Anniversary Social Security! Help us spread...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:27:33 -0400

ncpssm:

Happy 77th Anniversary Social Security!

Help us spread the message about this successful program that has not added a penny to the deficit by reblogging!

Posting a (belated) birthday card from the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare!

just-me-and-my-american-politics: My mom is on Social Security...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:43:53 -0400

just-me-and-my-american-politics:

My mom is on Social Security Disability. She has endured multiple auto accidents. My dad was unemployed because his work was taken by illegal aliens. We were living off this for awhile. My mom has endured Lumbar Fusion surgery. She can barely walk. My dad now has a low paying job and my mom has to take care of my brother and myself. I am too young to work as is my brother. We are better, but not completely. People want to take it away.

Learn the facts.

Social Security is a vital asset to millions of Americans. Spread the word, learn the facts!

"It represents America’s core values of hard work, contribution and intergenerational equity. On this..."

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:50:46 -0400

“It represents America’s core values of hard work, contribution and intergenerational equity. On this anniversary, it’s vital for the American people to understand the potential economic and political forces that could radically alter the core values that have defined America’s economic security priorities for almost eighty years. Social Security is a program we should be emulating…not threatening to tear down.”

- Max Richtman, NCPSSM President/CEO (via ncpssm)

Cat Actuary dons a birthday hat to wish Social Security a very...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:22:06 -0400

Cat Actuary dons a birthday hat to wish Social Security a very successful 77th birthday.

What FDR said when he signed Social Security into law, 77 years ago today:

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:33:35 -0400

think-progress:

Today a hope of many years’ standing is in large part fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young people have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age. The man with a job has wondered how long the job would last.

This social security measure gives at least some protection to thirty millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old-age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children and the prevention of ill health.

We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.

This law, too, represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete. It is a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions. It will act as a protection to future Administrations against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy. The law will flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation.

It is, in short, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

And now, how VP pick Paul Ryan would like to dismantle it.

Since 1935, Social Security has protected the elderly from...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:24:37 -0400

Since 1935, Social Security has protected the elderly from income loss after retirement, and the results are pretty stark.

What a Romney-Ryan presidency would look like.

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:31:16 -0400

What a Romney-Ryan presidency would look like.

larkin420: YES YES SQUARED.

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:27:04 -0400

larkin420:

YES

YES SQUARED.

Huffington Post Politics: Social Security Disability Enrollment Rising Due To Demographic Trends, Not Obama 'Slavery' Plot: CBO

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:11:15 -0400

Huffington Post Politics: Social Security Disability Enrollment Rising Due To Demographic Trends, Not Obama 'Slavery' Plot: CBO :

WASHINGTON — Some members of Congress have begun leveling accusations that rising enrollment in Social Security’s disability insurance program is evidence of growing American dependence on the government, and even a “slave” mentality.

But a new report out Monday says the rise in America’s ranks…

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"Ghosts have nothing on some of the ideas that come out of Washington when it comes to rattling..."

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Medicare Voucher Plan Remains Unpopular | Pew Research Center

Sign our Petition to Support Joe Biden's Comment's on Social Security!

danacbell: From the National Women’s Law Center, a reminder...

ourpresidents: On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D....

ncpssm: A coalition of Wisconsin activists, including NCPSSM...

Dems slam Ryan over Social Security privatization - Yahoo! News

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ncpssm: Happy 77th Anniversary Social Security! Help us spread...

just-me-and-my-american-politics: My mom is on Social Security...

More vintage posters from SSA.

"It represents America’s core values of hard work, contribution and intergenerational equity. On this..."

Cat Actuary dons a birthday hat to wish Social Security a very...

What FDR said when he signed Social Security into law, 77 years ago today:

Since 1935, Social Security has protected the elderly from...

What a Romney-Ryan presidency would look like.

larkin420: YES YES SQUARED.

Huffington Post Politics: Social Security Disability Enrollment Rising Due To Demographic Trends, Not Obama 'Slavery' Plot: CBO