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CHN Social Security Update
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1. Social Security Privatization: Why Conservatives, Progressives, and Centrists Should Be Concerned
2. ADA Social Security Event Thursday, Feb. 10. 1. Social Security Privatization: Why Conservatives, Progressives, and Centrists Should Be Concerned
Conservatives should be concerned that: Vice-President Cheney Has Admitted That Social Security Privatization Requires Borrowing Trillions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3260-2005Feb6.html Social Security Privatization Would Require A Massive Government Bureaucracy and Increase Paperwork for Small Businesses
http://www.socsec.org/commentary.asp?opedid=862 After All This Trouble, Private Account-Holders Would Not Actually Own the Accounts
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2005/nf2005028_8485_db045.htm Progressives should be concerned that: The President's Plan Slashes Benefits for Everyone -- Including Children and the Disabled, and Workers Who Do Not Choose Private Accounts
[See page 8 of the Center on Budget's report on benefit reductions http://www.cbpp.org/12-17-04socsec.pdf] The President's Allies Say His Proposal Is Better for Working Women -- But This Is Not True
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_20050202 The President Says His Proposal Is Better for African-Americans -- But This Is Not True
[See the section in the previous CHN Update: The Real Story on African Americans and Social Security http://www.chn.org/dia/organizations/chn/issues/socialsecurity/ssupdate050131.html] The President Says His Proposal Protects a Successful Social Program -- But This Is Not True
http://www.cbpp.org/2-4-05socsec.pdf
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_20050126 Centrists Should Be Concerned That:
Workers Have Paid Into Social Security and Have Earned a Right to Social Security, Yet the President Proposes to Slash Their Benefits Unnecessarily
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_20050126 The Administration Still Has Not Given Us an Honest Accounting of the Costs and Benefits of Privatization
http://www.cbpp.org/2-3-05socsec.htm 2. ADA Social Security Event Thursday, Feb. 10. Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) is sponsoring a Social Security Forum in Washington, DC titled
RECLAIMING THE AMERICAN DREAM PART 1: SOCIAL SECURITY Date and Time: Thursday, February 10 at 2pm.
Place: Room HC6 (Capitol Building). Enter through House or Senate wings; proceed to the Rotunda; then take the stairs to lower level. Featuring: Featuring Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA), ADA National President Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Barbara Kennelly, President, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare => Back to Social Security Main Page | 
