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DESCRIPTION:Celebrate and Defend Social Security on its 75th Birthday\nSaturday, August 
 14th, from 11 AM to 1 PM\nAt the New Federal Building, 7th and Mission 
 Streets, SF.\n\n\nJoin the California Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA) 
 and the San Francisco Central Labor Council to celebrate and defend 
 America's most successful social program.  Social Security, Medicare, and 
 Medicaid are under severe attack by business groups, deficit hawks, and the 
 Obama administration. Social Security, the longest established and most 
 financially secure of these programs, is under particular attack, with 
 media promoting lies such as Social Security being the verge of collapse, 
 draining the national treasury, and providing bloated benefits to 
 undeserving seniors.\n\nThe facts of Social Security are:  (1) Its benefits 
 have already been entirely paid by workers’ payroll taxes. (2) It has a 
 $2.5 billion surplus.  (3) If nothing were done, it could pay full benefits 
 until 2037, and 75% benefits afterward.  (4) If higher incomes were 
 subjected to payroll taxes, it could pay full benefits indefinitely.   (5) 
 The majority of seniors, disabled people, and surviving spouses are 
 dependent on Social Security, particularly minorities and women.\n\nSocial 
 Security, Medicare and Medicaid are under immediate threat because (1) the 
 President’s Fiscal Commission on the Deficit, heavily stacked against 
 these programs, is due to make its recommendations to Congress the first 
 week in December 2010, and (2) Congress has promised to prioritize an 
 up-or-down vote the Commission’s recommendations without amendment. So 
 Social Security celebrates its 75th birthday under fire.\n\nThis event is 
 (1) to give the truth about Social Security, the most successful social 
 program in the US for seniors, people with disabilities, kids, and 
 low-income families, (2) to warn these communities of the dangers that 
 Social Security faces, and (3) to mobilize these communities to pressure 
 Obama’s Deficit Commission and Congress to not privatize Social Security, 
 reduce its benefits, or raise its retirement age.\n\nRepresentatives of Bay 
 Area US Congresspersons and US Senators are invited to hear our message, 
 and respond. Similar events are planned for Fresno, Los Angeles, and San 
 Diego.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/22/18654541.php
SUMMARY:Celebrate and Defend Social Security on its 75th Birthday
LOCATION:New Federal Building Plaza\nMission St. at 7th St. San Francisco\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/22/18654541.php
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