The first step in privatizing Social Security is coming in September. Please take action to stop HR 3304.
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An email from AFL-CIO's Working Families E-Activist...
Tell Congress: Don't Privatize Social Security
Your members of Congress can give all their constituents a big
Labor Day gift by pledging not to privatize Social
Security--America's most successful family protection program.
Shortly after Labor Day, Congress will begin work on President
Bush's plan to replace Social Security's guaranteed benefits
with risky private accounts--and in the process slash benefits,
rack up massive new federal debt for our children to pay off,
open Social Security up to corruption and possibly raise the
retirement age.
Please send a message to your senators and representative right
now urging them to pledge to oppose Social Security
privatization. Click on the link below:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/PledgeforSocialSecurityIf we convince enough members of Congress to sign the pledge,
President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security won't stand a
chance. It won't be easy, but together we can do this.
When Congress gets back to work in September, the push for
private accounts will begin quickly with the House Ways and
Means Committee taking up H.R. 3304, a bill by Rep. Jim McCrery
(R-La.) that privatization proponents claim is a new idea to
stop the "raiding" of Social Security by Congress.
Wrong! The McCrery bill is the first step toward President
Bush's plan to privatize and ruin Social Security--and nothing
more. It creates private accounts, cuts guaranteed benefits,
increases the national debt--and does absolutely nothing to stop
the raids on the Social Security surplus or keep the program
solvent.
Our members of Congress need to STRENGTHEN Social
Security--America's most successful family security program--not
privatize it. Click on the link below now to urge them to pledge
to oppose Social Security privatization:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/PledgeforSocialSecurityPrivatization plans would fatally undermine Social Security by
tossing out the program's promised benefits in exchange for
no-guarantee privatized accounts. More retirees would live out
their years in poverty because of huge benefit cuts. In the
first 20 years alone, privatization could add $4.9 trillion to
the federal debt. And privatization would open Social Security
up to political corruption and Enron-ization, because
politicians would chose which Wall Street firms could make
billions off privatized accounts.
Tell Congress to protect workers and their retirement this Labor
Day season. Urge them to sign the pledge to oppose Social
Security privatization. Click on the link below:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/PledgeforSocialSecurityThank you for taking action for retirement security.
In solidarity,
Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO
Aug. 25, 2005