Tell Your Senators to Defend Social Security and Medicare by Supporting These Amendments
|This week two Senate budget amendments could affect the future of everybody reading these words – presuming we live long enough to reach our retirement years.
That’s not an overstatement: The Sanders-Harkin-Hirono Amendment would prevent the government from cutting Social Security benefits, an idea which both sides in the “Grand Bargain” negotiations seem to like far too much for comfort. The Stabenow Amendment would ban the privatization of the Medicare system through the Ryan/Republican “voucher” scheme.*
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