Social Security Isn't Broke

In the deficit hysteria now sweeping Washington, Social Security has emerged in the bull's-eye as a target for cuts. And kicking the old, the disabled, the widowed is now elevated into a machismo measure of credibility on reducing the debt.

We don't need politicians demonstrating their "credibility" by kicking the elderly and the disabled. We don't need to fix a Social Security program that isn't broken. The best "fix" for Social Security is simply to tell the truth about it.

Social Security isn't broke; there is no need to "fix" it.


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Social Security Isn't Broke

In the deficit hysteria now sweeping Washington, Social Security has emerged in the bull's-eye as a target for cuts. But the best "fix" for Social Security is simply to tell the truth about it. Social Security isn't broke; there is no need to "fix" it. We explain why. more »

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Social Security: Real Crisis vs. Political Fear-Mongering

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Produced by Institute for America's Future
August 6, 2010

At the Strengthen Social Security news conference in Washington July 29 leading experts on Social Security discussed the difference between the condition of the program today and the early 1980s, when an actual crisis compelled changes to the program. Those changes, the experts explain in this video, continue to keep the program solvent today. more »

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The Strengthen Social Security Campaign

By Dave Johnson
July 31, 2010

Social Security is once again under attack. more »

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Cut Social Security To Pay For Tax Cuts For Rich?

By Dave Johnson
July 27, 2010

We have a deficit because we cut taxes for the rich, increased military spending, started two decade-long wars and handed tons of money to Wall Street. The Washington elite crowd says therefore, to fix a deficit caused by cutting taxes for the rich and sending military spending up into the stratosphere we have to ... cut Social Security? more »

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Jobless Aid Restored - Now More to Be Done

By Mitchell Hirsch
July 22, 2010

The following was originally published at Working America's "Main Street" blog.

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Scammed: What Shirley Sherrod and Social Security Have in Common

By Richard (RJ) Eskow
July 21, 2010

This week's big story is that a faker scammed the media, trashing an innocent USDA employee's career in order to push a false right-wing narrative. But another scam's underway too, and it's targeting Social Security and other entitlement programs. As Republicans (and at least one Democrat) pushed budget-busting tax cuts, the "bipartisan" leaders of the Deficit Commission showed their true colors as extremists who peddle panic and hold "hearings" despite having their minds already made up. One of them said that the Federal debt is a "cancer," adding that you "can't tax your way out of it" - and that was the Democrat! Meanwhile the Republican complained that November's elections will be "disruptive," creating "wreckage" that will interfere with their plans.

When you think about it, Shirley Sherrod and the the Social Security system have a lot more in common than their initials. more »

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Kick the Old and the Disabled to Show We're Serious About Deficits?

By Robert Borosage
July 21, 2010

In the deficit hysteria now sweeping Washington, Social Security has emerged in the bull's-eye as a target for cuts. Perpetually tanned Republican House Minority leader John Boehner, called for hiking the retirement age to 70. more »

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USA Today, Gallup Can't Read Their Own Social Security Poll

By Bill Scher
July 20, 2010

A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds the most Americans do not support broad cuts in Social Security, either by raising the retirement age or the payroll tax. more »

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