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
Click the above title to go to the site.
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.
Watch the video below for even more information and
For more information about Straight Talk for Seniors on Health Reform, contact Ken Schwartz at ken.schwartz@ncoa.org.
This is the direct result of 8 years of Bush/Republican policies...
Stats show shrinking middle class
From the Business Insider via Yahoo:
Here are the statistics to prove it:
• 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
• 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.
• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
• 36 percent of Americans say that they don't contribute anything to retirement savings.
• A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.
• 24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
• Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.
• Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
• For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
• In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
• As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.
• The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.
• Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.
• In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% MORE than the average worker in the private sector.
• The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
• In America today, the average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.
• More than 40 percent of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.
• For the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.
• This is what American workers now must compete against: in China a garment worker makes approximately 86 cents an hour and in Cambodia a garment worker makes approximately 22 cents an hour.
• Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 - the highest rate in 20 years.
• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.
• The top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income.
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