the Sugar Conspiracy

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Petition #1

President Bush's top priority for his second term -- privatizing Social Security -- is likely to be even more expensive than his invasion of Iraq and tax cuts for the highest income taxpayers. It should be stopped before it starts, but momentum is building as an unholy alliance of Wall Street lobbyists and right-wing ideologues plots the demise of Social Security as we know it.

The current Social Security system grew out of the stock market crash of 1929 and the resulting economic collapse. It is ludicrous to create a new system dependant on the very economic forces that made the program necessary in the first place. America's priority should be ensuring that people who worked hard their whole life don't spend their twilight years living in poverty.

Call on your senators and representative to oppose privatizing Social Security in any way and to oppose any law that funnels Social Security dollars through Wall Street.

posted by chris at 10:10 AM
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