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This Friday Rally for Social Security and Medicare

This Friday, April 12, 2013, 6:30 to 7:30pm rally for Social Security and Medicare (NE corner, at the intersection of Ventura Blvd and Laurel Canyon Blvd.) Petition enclosed you can sign.

Our answer to the President's budget proposal:
Take Social Security and Medicare
Off The Table!

Friday, April 12

6:30 to 7:30pm

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NE corner, at the intersection of Ventura Blvd and Laurel Canyon Blvd.

Sign the Petition below from ROOTSACTION.ORG

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 "Any member of Congress who votes to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits does not deserve to be re-elected."

Links for a perspective NOT saturating the airwaves:
Why I Love Social Security  http://tomhayden.com/home/why-i-love-social-security.html

Excerpt:  "[...Our so-called budget crisis was consciously created by past administrations that spent trillions on unfunded wars, tax loopholes and the bail out of Wall Street in response to a deep recession. Ideologically, the corporate and Republican intent for 60 years has been to rid the capitalist market of all those government policies – social insurance, union rights, public education, public health systems, environmental protection, campaign finance reform, etc. – that “interfere” with the unfettered access of private capital to markets, natural resources and exploitable labor, not only here at home but across the world.  Instead of yielding to their browbeating, the best course is to extend the core provisions of the New Deal – along with equal rights and environmental protection – to American global policy as a whole...]

 

Reich Decodes the Chained CPI

Watch the video: What's the Big Deal about Chained CPI (in 2 minutes)   http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/reich_decodes_the_chained_cpi_20130406/

 



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