A great graphic for this week’s celebration of Social Security’s 80th Anniversary!
(Thank you U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for this graphic!)
See more posts like this on Tumblr
#bernie sanders #quotes #FDR #social security #franklin roosevelt #p2 #seniorsMore you might like
![Earlier this week, Members of Congress and allies met to discuss Social Security and the GOP Congress’ manufactured crisis.
““Seniors, I stand with you all the way [on Social Security].”
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky
“We are in a crisis right now. A...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/93d9258801da499ce7712598d0be22b4/tumblr_njo11hjqsI1qd3gmvo1_1280.jpg)
Earlier this week, Members of Congress and allies met to discuss Social Security and the GOP Congress’ manufactured crisis.
“Seniors, I stand with you all the way [on Social Security].”
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky“We are in a crisis right now. A retirement crisis. Not a Social Security crisis.” - Rep. Jan Schakowsky
“Stop manufacturing a crisis with the Social Security disability trust fund.”
- Senator Bernie Sanders“This week anyone earning a million dollars a year will have paid 100% of their payroll taxes for 2015.”
- Max Richtman
He [President FDR] believed (and we still believe) that Social Security is basic to the lives of the American people. And he was very clear that it was a family program. It was created not only so that people, when they reach retirement age, have enough money for the basics of a decent life. It’s also so that their children don’t have to spend down their money to take care of them.
Jim Roosevelt [FDR’s grandson] via Entitled to Know.
Congress should be expanding Social Security benefits for seniors.
Thank you to Senator Bernie Sanders for this graphic!
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Wednesday called on President-elect Donald Trump to announce he would veto any legislation to cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, or admit that he “lied” to the American people.
via The Hill.
Related Reading:
- Repeal of the Affordable Care Act Compromises Medicare, Costs Seniors.
- “Since the law’s enactment more than 11 million seniors and people with
disabilities have received savings and discounts in the Part D donut
hole of over $23.5 billion on prescription drugs, an average of $2,127
per beneficiary. In 2015 alone, an estimated 39.2 million people with
Medicare took advantage of at least one preventive service with no
copays or deductibles.”
Bernie Sanders cemented his appeal to older voters on Thursday with renewed calls for an expansion of social security and protection of Medicare from alleged assaults by Republicans.
via The Guardian.
More About Our Campaign Which Asks Congress to BOOST Social Security Benefits for All Working Americans:
- 6 Ways Congress Can Boost Social Security.
- Eliminate the cap Social Security payroll contributions.
- Boost Social Security Campaign Fast Facts.
- Large majorities of Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, agree on ways to strengthen Social Security — without cutting benefits. Fully 74% of Republicans and 88% of Democrats agree that “it is critical to preserve Social Security even if it means increasing Social Security taxes paid by working Americans. NASI 2013 poll.
Asking the wealthiest Americans to contribute more into Social Security, would not only extend the solvency of Social Security through 2060, it also would allow Social Security benefits to be expanded for millions of Americans.
“Stop manufacturing a crisis with the Social Security disability trust fund.” - Senator Bernie Sanders
![“The enemies of Social Security in Congress are making a very bad situation even worse [by proposing cuts to SSA’s operating budget.] They want to make it impossible to effectively administer the program, and ultimately want to destroy Social...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1c78ed79e5e7168a42078f7b6d551a8c/tumblr_p2z1kt6Dqa1qd3gmvo1_1280.jpg)
“The enemies of Social Security in Congress are making a very bad situation even worse [by proposing cuts to SSA’s operating budget.] They want to make it impossible to effectively administer the program, and ultimately want to destroy Social Security.”
-Senator Bernie Sanders
More about the Fully Fund Social Security Administration event can be found here.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. He returned to Washington on that same day 80 years later to talk to Americans at the U.S. Capitol about his landmark legislation and to celebrate Social Security’s many successes.
Seniors went to Capitol Hill earlier this month to tell Congress why their current #SocialSecurity benefits are inadequate. Boost Social Security Now! https://www.ncpssm.org/campaigns/boost-social-security-now/ @RepJohnLarson