Super Committee close to recommending social security cuts. Let's fight it. See below:

[Cal33]

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Save social security

Sign the petition: "Congress should reject cuts to Social Security and instead make the 1% pay their share."



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Dear friend,

For four months the congressional "Super Committee" has been meeting behind closed doors to hash out ways to reduce the deficit.

A report in The New York Times this week suggests that the committee is close to recommending mandatory cuts to Social Security instead of tax increases for the richest one percent.1

No way we can let this happen. This is a rotten deal that we have to stop.

The committee issues their report to Congress in one week. We are collecting petition signatures that we will deliver on Monday. Our goal is to send a message that cuts to Social Security come with hell to pay from voters.

Click here to tell Congress to reject any new cuts to Social Security.

After you sign please take a minute to forward this email to friends, family, and co-workers so they know about the mandatory cuts that could be coming. Ask them to sign too.

We have seven days to put the brakes on the Super Committee's report and kill this proposal. Here is how a news story described the cuts recently:


"Just as 55 million Social Security recipients are about to get their first benefit increase in three years, Congress is looking at reducing future raises by adopting a new measure of inflation that also would increase taxes for most families. Those with low incomes would be hit hardest.

"If adopted across the government, the inflation measure would have widespread ramifications. Increases in veterans' benefits and pensions for federal workers and military personnel would be smaller. And over time, fewer people would qualify for Medicaid, Head Start, food stamps, school lunch programs and home heating assistance than under the current measure."2


Conservatives have never liked Social Security. Those monthly checks prove that government can be a force for good in the lives of Americans.

And let's be clear what the anti-tax stuff is all about—the rich and big companies don't want to pay their fair share. They've deployed their lobbyists to push for cuts to Social Security so they don't have to pay more in taxes.

We urgently need to send Congress a message that cuts to Social Security are OFF the table. Please sign and recruit other people to sign.

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=267709&id=32974-8519572-Y4jJAWx&t=3

Thanks for all you do.
–Natalie, Van, Billy, Jim, Ian, Somer, and the rest of the Rebuild the Dream team

Sources:

1. "Deficit Panel Seeks to Defer Details on Raising Taxes," The New York Times, November 13, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=267710&id=32974-8519572-Y4jJAWx&t=4

2. "New Social Security formula could cut benefits, raise taxes," USA Today, November 7, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=267711&id=32974-8519572-Y4jJAWx&t=5

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Close?

It's way past "close."

[girl gone mad]

2. This script was written years ago.

Shift the banks' bad debts onto the public balance sheet then force austerity on the masses. Fight it.

[dkf]

4. Why don't we just print money?

[girl gone mad]

6. Then private banks would lose their death grip on our economy.

It is the best solution. Maybe the only one which can prevent serious turmoil.

There is too much debt in the economy and not enough money. Private banks created too much credit (debt) over the past decade. They lent and securitized with reckless abandon, creating bubbles and inflation and saddling the productive classes with an insurmountable financial burden as wages and employment levels were falling.

We need to reverse the privatization of our sovereign money and put it under the control of the public sector.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Obama will veto it

[DJ13]

5. He has supported cuts in the past

[Angry Dragon]

7. If SS cuts get through Congress and land on his desk

the people will find out where his principles lay.........

[gateley]

8. I'm emailing Murray now. Again. nt

[gateley]

9. Just called Murray's office and got right through (was hoping

the line would be busy) and said, if you're tallying input from Washingtonians, please note that if the Committee passes any cuts or changes to SS or Medicare, she has lost my vote.

She said she'll pass that along but what encouraged me is that I heard her typing - so maybe they ARE keeping track of the comments.

[Cal33]

10. Yes, politicians have to be told without mincing words.

[gateley]

11. That's all my messages ever are - they don't care if I've lost

my home, if I've got medical issues I can't pay for, if I'm hungry. They only care if they have my vote and contributions. I usually just give the message right in the subject line of my emails. If you do/don't XXXX, I'll support and contribute to your opponent.