Obama and the “centrists”
The New York Times
The Gullotine
GoComics
Plan to cut Social Security would harm seniors.
The New York Times
Tell Obama: No Cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid
Campaign for America's Future
Sign NOW! We have only a few days to stop cuts in Social Security.
'Chained CPI' Would Cut Social Security
The Chained CPI, deceptively portrayed as a reasonable cost of living adjustment, is a cut to Social Security that would hurt seniors. Watch Robert Reich explain why Chained CPI is so stingy in this video, and then sign his SignOn.org petition to President Obama here.
This video is a MoveOn original.
Social Security, Present and Future
The New York Times
Tidbits - March 28, 2013
Portside
Reader Comments on: Lean In and One Percent Feminism; Marx's Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping the World; BRICS; Dues Check-Off; Obama's Cyber-War; Internet Privacy; Social Security; Independent Worker Unions; Minimum Wage; Detroit; NCAA; Announcements - Fair Elections Rally in NYC - Apr 3; Delegation to Venezuela - Witness the Elections; NYC People's Jazz; Paul Robeson, Woody Guthrie, Peter Seeger - Lessons from the Cultural Front
Tidbits - March 21, 2013
Portside
Readers Comments on CBC Alternative Budget; Social Security; NY Police Arrest Quotas; Iraq War Ten Years After - Declassified Documents Released; Union Dues Check-Off?; Open Letter to Tony Kushner; Music video against gun violence; Wither the Socialist Left?; James O'Keefe and the Acorn Deception; Unions and Co-ops; Obamacare's Other Benefit; Dolores Huerta in the California Hall of Fame; Neoliberalism & Working Class Resistance in Greece - March 22 forum in New York;...
Social Security for the Next Generation? If You're Under 40, You Should Be in the Streets
Policy Shop
The fact that employers have stopped providing good health insurance or good retirement benefits also has nothing to with technology or globalization or any of the other alibis. In a reasonable society, health insurance and decent retirement would be tax-supported and part of the basic package for everyone.
The great hidden injustice in our society is the set of lead weights being placed on the feet of young adults. Your generation should be in the streets.
Which Members of Congress Are Standing Up for Economic Decency – And Which “Progressives” Aren’t
Portside
In the real politics of the emerging struggle over Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, there’s a very big difference between expressing opposition to benefit cuts and promising not to vote for them.
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