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Dear Working Families e-Activist:
Let's stop Social Security privatization in its
tracks.
If enough members of Congress pledge now to oppose
Social Security privatization, President Bush's
proposal will be dead on arrival when it gets to Capitol Hill.
Please take one minute now to urge your members of Congress to
sign the Pledge to Strengthen Social Security and to oppose
privatization proposals that would:
- Cut guaranteed benefits.
- Weaken Social Security by diverting money from the Trust
Fund to pay for private accounts.
- Explode the federal deficit.
- Possibly increase the retirement age.
Please click the following link now to urge your members of
Congress to sign the pledge:
www.unionvoice.org/campaign/sspledge
It's this simple: If enough members of Congress sign the
pledge, President Bush's Social Security privatization plan
can't survive. It won't be easy, but together we can
do this. Your members of Congress were elected to
work for you—tell them they must protect your
retirement security by opposing privatization.
Keep watching your e-mail for news about which U.S.
representatives and senators have signed the pledge and which
need more pressure. Thank your members of Congress who pledge
to fight for retirement security and demand that others do
what's right for working families, too. In the coming weeks
we'll also provide you a petition to circulate at work—to get
even more constituents calling on your elected leaders to sign
the pledge. We'll invite you to rallies in your area
protesting Wall Street money managers that support
privatization rather than the best interests of working
families. And we'll get you plenty of resources you can use to
educate co-workers about how dangerous Social Security
privatization is to our retirement security.
But for now, please send your members of Congress a quick
message urging them to sign the Pledge to Strengthen Social
Security. It won't take more than a minute. Click this link:
www.unionvoice.org/campaign/sspledge
And once you have signed, please click the following link
to ask other working people to send the message as well:
www.unionvoice.org/campaign/sspledge/forward
Every one of us must act to stop privatization and
strengthen Social Security because privatization would:
- Cut guaranteed benefits by at least 40 percent—even for
people who don't choose to have private accounts. The
average retiree would lose $152,000 in guaranteed benefits.
- Leave many retirees in poverty.
- Add a whopping $4.9 trillion to federal debt in the
first 20 years alone.
- Open Social Security up to political corruption and
Enron-ization because politicians would choose which Wall
Street firms can make billions off the accounts.
- Possibly raise the retirement age.
Let's stop privatization now. Click here:
www.unionvoice.org/campaign/sspledge
Thanks for all you do for working families.
In solidarity,
Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO
Mar. 2, 2005 |
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