Demand Resignation of Social Security Trustee

 

Demand Resignation of Social Security Trustee

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Demand Resignation of Social Security Trustee

Urge your members of Congress to call for the resignation of Social Security TrusteeThomas Saving. Saving, as announced in a February 23, 2005 press release, is now advising "Progress for America", a group committed to privatizing Social Security. But Saving is still posing as a "neutral" Social Security Trustee in public appearances. It is unethical and outrageous for an official sworn to protect Social Security to work behind the scenes for its partisan demise.

Urge your members of Congress to demand that Saving resign.
"Thomas Saving should resign as a public trustee of Social Security and Medicare because of his severe conflict of interest," said AFGE National President John Gage in a press release issued this week. "When a Trustee offers his opinion on the Agency he is appointed to protect, there should be no question about who that trustee speaks for.  But who does Thomas Saving speak for, the people who rely on Social Security or the partisan political organization Progress for America?"

Gage also called on Social Security Commissioner Jo Anne B. Barnhart to clean up the ethics mess that is growing within the Social Security Administration.  From enrolling career employees in a PR campaign to sell the public on privatizing Social Security, to the participation of SSA deputy commission James B. Lockhart III in pro-privatization events held by congressional Republicans, to the alignment of Social Security Trustee Thomas Saving with an organization that holds a blatantly partisan position on Social Security, Gage said the situation within SSA is becoming an ethical nightmare.

Despite his joining forces with Progress for America in February, Saving continues to pose in public as a nonpartisan guardian of Social Security. He testified on Wednesday, March 10, for example, at a hearing on the future of Social Security before the House Ways and Means Committee without revealing his hidden agenda. It’s time to put an end to the Administration’s ethically challenged campaign to privatize Social Security.
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