PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY

By Rosalind Peterson
June 17, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

June 4, 2009 Social Security is a fully guaranteed insurance system that benefits senior citizens and for some, it is their only source of income. Social Security provides essential benefits to millions of Americans, disabled workers, wives, widows, retired workers, and children. The AARP is supporting a plan that would increase the income cap on Social Security to solve problems regarding future solvency and longevity.

In 2005, a group of citizens gathered thousands of signatures on a petition to stop the privatization of Social Security by the Bush Administration. This ongoing petition drive moved across California and then signed petitions began to arrive from citizens in almost every state. This petition was carried across the United States by long-haul truckers, by fax and telephone, the mail, and the Internet. These petitions were delivered to Senators Obama (just prior to his election as President), Feinstein, and Boxer, and U.S. Congressman Mike Thompson (who introduced nearly 10,000 petition signature into the record and spoke eloquently on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives against the privatization of Social Security in 2005).

Citizens across the United States are once again joining together to emphatically protest the privatization of Social Security. We strongly feel that there should be no negotiations on any form of
privatization or Social Security funds going to support private accounts. Citizens have made it clear that they “…oppose the privatization of Social Security and support raising the Social Security income cap to adequately address all problems of solvency and longevity.â€