What do you do when the vast majority of Americans, of all ages and political stripes, disagree with you? If you’re part of the well-financed anti-Social Security, Medicare lobby, you simply spend a portion of your billion dollar investment on a massive nationwide advertising campaign designed to convince Americans that cutting middle-class benefits is as American as…let’s see…McDonald’s hamburgers.
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Max Richtman, President/CEO of the National Committee, was recently on PBS NewsHour speaking about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and its relation to the so-called fiscal cliff.
Click here or the graphic to watch the interview.
Center for Media and Democracy recently published a great source of information on the group ‘Fix the Debt’. They expose the real motives behind Fix the Debt’s campaign to protect their tax breaks by cutting Social Security & Medicare retirement benefits for seniors, veterans, and the disabled.
More Proof that “Deficit Reduction” is Really Just Code for Social Security & Medicare Cuts:
The Congressional Budget Office’s new budget projections show that despite the sky-is-falling crisis calls made by Wall Street backed austerity fanatics like: Fix The Debt, Bowles-Simpson and the rest of the Pete Peterson funded anti-Social Security brigade, our deficit is now the smallest it’s been since 2008.
Read more here.
“Chip in”? Fix the Debt’s corporate and billionaire backers - now including JetBlue - are actually proposing lower tax rates for corporations like JetBlue and millionaires like Barger, while at the same time encouraging cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits.
Fix the Debt, which appears to share funding as well as staffing with other Peterson-funded groups, is a corporate CEOs’ club which actively lobbies against Medicare and Social Security while saying nothing about defense spending - a position that is not surprising, since the group is dominated by defense contractors who make billions from taxpayer-funded contracts.
Fix the Debt, which appears to share funding as well as staffing with other Peterson-funded groups, is a corporate CEOs’ club which actively lobbies against Medicare and Social Security while saying nothing about defense spending - a position that is not surprising, since the group is dominated by defense contractors who make billions from taxpayer-funded contracts.
The billion dollar national campaign to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to reduce the deficit is an example of the old political saying: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” America doesn’t face an entitlement crisis. However, cutting benefits for middle-class and poor Americans remains the go-to solution for fiscal conservatives who see the congressionally created “fiscal cliff” as their golden opportunity to target these vital programs.
Senator Bernie Sanders speaking at National Committee event where volunteers will deliver petitions to Members of Congress urging them not to cut Social Security or Medicare.
“No cuts to Social Security! No Cuts to Medicare! No Cuts to Medicaid!” -Senator Sanders
(at United States Capitol Building)
Americans Don’t Support Cutting Social Security & Medicare for Deficit Reduction – Even Wall Street-backed “Third Way” Agrees.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Americans do not support cutting Social Security and Medicare to pay down the debt.
Click here or the picture to read the full article.
On this date in 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the #ADA into law — making it easier for older Americans and others with #disabilities to get around at home, participate in their communities, and go to work. #ADA31