Please help the Dems stand up against the Repubs’ intended destruction of Social Security. They have the votes — but it’s total LIES that provides the ‘cover’ for their efforts to ‘fix’ the Social Security system.

Dems must help Americans recognize that SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT BROKEN. That the protections developed for our grandfathers are especially needed today — when INCREASING NUMBERS OF PEOPLE HAVE NO RETIREMENT AND NO HEALTH INSURANCE if they were to stop working. (At Home Depot, my husband is one of many who has only his company’s complicated stock plan with which to ‘build retirement’; it does not yield a living wag, even as he invests a portion of his salary in Home Depot stock.)

BLOGS WITH DETAILED SOCIAL SECURITY INFO
For a political update and statistics on Social Security, please see blogger Josh Marshall’s Talking Points: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
and Chris Bowers on MYDD.COM http://www.mydd.com/section/Activism (quoted below)

“Let’s fight back with frames that tell the truth and express our beliefs. Social Security has been, and still is, successful in its goal to keep seniors from starving in poverty. Social Security is a healthy program that is fully funded for the next fifty years, and even then it will only take small changes in revenue to keep it fully funded for several more decades. Any attempt to privatize Social Security is a right-wing power grab on behalf of wealthy investment firms that are lying in order to destroy a healthy and successful program. In countries where Social Security has been abolished, senior poverty is skyrocketing.”