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Call Today To Save Social Security
Call Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led a press conference and rally to save Social Security yesterday: Senate Majority Leader Reid, Other Democrats, Join Hundreds to Demand No Cuts to Social Security Sens. Reid, Harkin, Sanders,...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/29/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Social Security:...
The Department of Justice Indicting Immigrants While Ignoring Wall Street Crooks
If you're a banker who bought your estate with the millions you made from mortgage fraud, relax. The Justice Department isn't looking for you. But if you're an illegal immigrant who's working on that banker's estate, look out. The Department of Justice is ignoring...
Lockboxes and Lunchboxes Krauthammer vs Social Security
Charles Krauthammer wants you to know two things: There's no "lockbox" for Social Security and there's no such thing as a free lunch. He's wrong about Social Security, but first things first: Let's do lunch. Here's Krauthammer last Thursday, rebutting White House...
Conservatives Tell Liberals Why They Should Support Cuts to Social Security
Showing the sort of balanced journalism that we have come to expect from the Washington Post, its oped page featured a column by Robert Pozen, a financial industry executive and proponent of Social Security privatization, telling liberals why they should support cuts...
Washington Post On Social Security Long On Hyperbole Short On Facts
Journamalism in 2011 is long on hyperbolic headlines and short on actual facts. If you go to The Washington Post business section this morning, you will see what I mean. Lori Montgomery has turned in, and an editor has seen fit to publish, 700 or so words of ignorant,...
Harrys Fight
One group of senators is determined to cut Social Security benefits. Another is equally determined to stop them. And nearly two-thirds of the Senate signed a letter that took a clear stand in favor of ... well, it's not exactly clear what they want. It's been a battle...
Social Security Real People Real Benefits
"This is not some abstract debate. This is about real people who live real lives." Those were the words of Wade Henderson, CEO of the Leadership Council on Civil Rights, at the Strengthen Social Security press conference on Capitol Hill this afternoon. The...
A Letter From 64 Senators In an Alternate Universe
Scientists say there are trillions of parallel universes. Statistically, that means that must be one where some poor version of humanity lives in an inverted, mind-bending alternate reality where everything is backwards and nothing makes sense. But why did it have to...
Todays Social Security Propaganda Rebuttal Post
Marketing works. If you put a lot of money into repeating a marketing message over and over and over, eventually people's brains absorb the message. Conservatives have put a lot of money and effort into convincing people that there is something wrong with Social...
