While we're on the subject of Seniors, there is a LOT of bull coming from Both Republicans and Democrats about Social Security. The truth of the matter is Social Security has a 2.5 TRILLION dollar surplus right now! That's right! A surplus. Social Security is not in any danger until 2037 and that's only if we don't take steps now. So how do we fix that possible problem?
Every decent economist says it's simple: remove the tax ceiling on Social Security. Right now the ceiling is tax paid up to $!06,000. Over that, those who make more pay nothing extra, BUT they get to reap higher benefits when they retire. Yep! You heard that. People like John McCain who is worth millions still takes his Social Security Check every month. Will he miss it if it's stopped? Hardly. Will you miss yours?
What do you mean you didn't put aside an extra $100 a month since 1970? But even if you had, you would have lost 90% of it during the Bush Administrations Wall Street screwup!
What can you do? Make sure you call our turncoat Jason Altmire and tell him Hands off Social Security! Right now, he's agreeing with other WEALTHY Congressmen that Social Security should be gutted to help reduce the deficit.
It won't by a long shot, plain and simple. Watch this then call him or write and tell him don't touch Social Security!
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Straight Talk for Seniors on Health Care Reform
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Please read this article if you are a senior citizen or have a senior citizen as a parent of even friend. The amount of misinformation being disseminated by Fox and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is staggering. And in case you didn't know, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has NO connection to the government! It's not run by any department of the government and gets none of your tax dollars , at least directly, from the government. It is an arm of business for business only and doesn't care about anything but business. Please take that into account when someone tells you the Chamber says ANYTHING!
Go to the site listed at the top of this page for all the information you need to know about Senior Health Reform. Chances are real good that most of what you think you know or believe or have been told by Fox and the Chamber is totally intentional misinformation. If you choose to only believe Fox, The Chamber(pot) of Congress or even CNN, you are doing yourself a serious disservice.
I have to add that the Republicans and a number of Blue Dog (traitor) Democrats want to repeal this! If they get their way, none of this will come about and seniors will have virtually nothing! By the way, our own two-faced representative Jason Altmire is a Blue Dog Democrat (Democrat in name only) who is for the repeal of the Health Care Bill because he says it will add to the deficit, which it will not. Yet he has no problem spending your tax money on an additional 300 billion for the war which will add to the deficit which we found out, over 8 billion of your tax dollars has disappeared from Iraq just this year and that's not counting what's missing from Afghanistan. Add to that total the 100 billion of your tax dollars that disappeared during the Bush Administration, the 700 billion spent on the Iraq War, the 300 billion so far on the Afghan War and you all could have had free health care...and there would be no deficit.
UPDATE:While the Senate cut all the funding for teachers and education in the bill that included massive funding for the illegal war in Afghanistan, Altmire had no problem voting to spend your tax dollars on more killing and ignoring education. How's that for priorities? And if ANYONE would like to challenge me on how spending 300 billion dollars to kill thousands of civilians and NO AlQaeda (now it's the Taliban, who did NOTHING to us!) keeps America safe, send me an email and I'll publish it. Please provide proof.
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For more information about Straight Talk for Seniors on Health Reform, contact Ken Schwartz at ken.schwartz@ncoa.org.
