ALERTS: Say NO to the “Grand Swindle” on Social Security and Medicare

The Center for Media and Democracy is circulating the following alert:

March 19, 2012
CONTACT: Nikolina Lazic at nikolina@prwatch.org
Say No to a “Grand Swindle” on Social Security and Medicare!

Dear Friend of CMD,

President Obama has signaled repeatedly that he is willing to cut “entitlements,” including Social Security, as part of a deal that includes higher taxes.

What is he thinking? Workers pay into the Social Security system their entire lives – just to use the word “entitlements” is caving in to the Peterson gang. Two-thirds of folks on Social Security rely on the average check of $1,200 a month for HALF THEIR INCOME. Since the Wall Street meltdown, people need the program more than ever and that includes six million kids who are orphaned or living with family members receiving Social Security.

The elite media calls it a “Grand Bargain,” but what this type of deal would really do is needlessly blow a hole in one of the most successful and treasured programs of the New Deal era.

Click here to tell Congress to say no to a Grand Swindle that includes cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

Tell Congress that overall budget cuts kill jobs, the bigger the cut the bigger the kill. The sequesters will cost us some 750,000 jobs, but a “Grand Bargain” along the lines of Simpson-Bowles will cost us some 4 million jobs, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

Tell President Obama and Congress, we say no to a Grand Swindle. Priority number one is jobs.

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