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DESCRIPTION:Feinstein: Don't cut the heart out of Social Security!\n\nDemonstration, 
 Wed, Feb 14th, 11 AM\nSen. Dianne Feinstein’s office, 1 Post St, at 
 Market, SF\n\nContacts \nMichael Lyon, 415-215-7575, 
 mlyon01@comcast.net\nJodi Reid, 415-550-0828, 
 jreid@retiredamericans.org\n\n\nSay NO way to Dianne Feinstein’s plan to 
 set up a Commission \nto Restructure Social Security, Medicare, and Other 
 Entitlements!\n\nRepublican Senator Pete Domenici (NM) and Democratic 
 Senator Diane Feinstein (CA) are co-sponsors of S-355, which would create a 
 permanent commission to draft laws to “save” Social Security, Medicare, 
 and other entitlements by drastically reducing their spending over the 
 coming decades.  Feinstein quotes the Federal Reserve that entitlement 
 spending is already a threat to the economy.\n\nWithout a crystal ball, we 
 can’t anticipate the Commission’s proposals, but whether it’s 
 privatization, contracting out, massive benefit cuts, or increasing the 
 retirement age, it’s bound to hurt retirees, disabled people, and 
 children.  \n\nRepublicans and Democrats both say the nation’s economy 
 cannot afford to give us medical care and a decent life after we’ve 
 worked  all our lives.  If this is true, it’s because they’ve spent the 
 billions we paid into the system for wars over oil and tax cuts to the 
 rich.\n\nFeinstein says she wants to “save” Social Security and 
 Medicare because corporations cut retiree pensions and healthcare.   Lies! 
 The pressure to “restructure” entitlements comes from the same 
 corporations, who want to repeat those cuts in the public sector. With the 
 billions of cuts in social services, we need to be talking about ways to 
 expand these programs, not cut them.\n\nInitial Sponsors\n\nCalifornia 
 Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA)\n877-223-6107, 
 jreid@retiredamericans.org\nhttp://www.californiaalliance.org/default.asp\n\nGray 
 Panthers of San Francisco, 1182 Market St, Rm. 203, SF CA 
 94102\n415-552-8800, graypanther-sf@sbcglobal.net, 
 http://graypantherssf.igc.org/ \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/04/18357455.php
SUMMARY:Feinstein: Don't cut the heart out of Social Security!
LOCATION:SF Office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein\n1 Post St (at Market St) San 
 Francisco\nMontgomery BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/04/18357455.php
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