Pete Peterson’s Anti-Social Security Talking Points: Coming Soon to Texas Textbooks?

[Hannah Bell]

Over the last few months, Texas’ far-right Board of Education has been in the national spotlight as they prepare to debate new, highly ideological textbook standards for high school. These proposed changes – which could affect textbooks all over the country, since Texas is the country’s second-largest textbook market...

Unsurprisingly, even more changes along these lines are afoot, in advance of a final vote on May 21. But amongst the many radical distortions of American history along right-wing ideological lines, one finds a change with disturbingly mainstream support.

A new set of amendments, proposed by board member Don McLeroy, recommends that classes “discuss alternatives regarding long term entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare, given the decreasing worker to retiree ratio.” As blogger Joan McCarter aptly notes, this proposed wording “could have been written by Pete Peterson...”

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010052022/pete-peterson-s-anti-social-security-talking-points-coming-soon-texas-textbook

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1. Yeah but no mention that Baby Boomers

already paid for their parent's retirement and their own, when Ronnie Raygun doubled the Social Security wage withholdings and started the Social Security Trust Fund. No mention that Baby Boomers were the first generation to pay for both their parents' and their own social security retirement.

So the worker to retiree ration means absolutely nothing since 1983.

Our children will only have to pay for their own Social Security retirement. They wont be burdened with their parent's retirement like we Baby Boomers were.