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DESCRIPTION:Protest Deficit Commission Chairs\nAlan Simpson and Erskine 
 Bowles\n\nTuesday , March 6, 7 PM\nParamount Theater, Oakland\n2025 
 Broadway, betw. 20th & 21st Sts\n(Next to 19th St. BART)\n(Map at 
 http://tinyurl.com/6qtggs3 )\n\nThe chairs of Obama’s Deficit Commission, 
 Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, are on the lecture circuit rallying the 1% 
 to implement their programs of (1) slashing Social Security, Medicare, and 
 Medicaid, (2) putting a cap on ALL federal revenue, to keep the safety net 
 permanently in tatters, (3) further reducing taxes on the rich and 
 increasing them for us, (4) taxing health insurance that have adequate 
 benefits, and (5) cutting veterans health benefits.  Read more about their 
 plans at  http://tinyurl.com/4d2erbh .  Though Bowles and Simpson were 
 unable to get Commissioner’s votes to force Congress to vote their plan 
 up or down, they are still touring the country promoting their plan to 
 audiences paying hundreds of dollars to see them.  \n\nJoin the California 
 Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA) and many other groups for an 
 informational picket and press briefing to challenge these proposals.  As 
 more of us lose jobs and housing, and fall into poverty and hunger, Bowles 
 and Simpson are using the deficit as a phony excuse to cut our services and 
 safety net:\n\n** Wars to control oil, tax cuts to corporations and the 
 rich, and bank bailouts caused the deficit!  \n\n** Social Security does 
 not add a cent to the deficit.  \n\n** Medicare and Medicaid add to the 
 debt only because corporate healthcare refuses to let Medicare cover 
 everyone with equal comprehensive healthcare.  \n\nRead a leaflet from a 
 demonstration at an earlier Simpson-Bowles talk, with pointed questions 
 directed at them:  http://tinyurl.com/7obq5wj \n\nSee more pictures and a 
 story from that demonstration\nhttp://tinyurl.com/7gf4e9r \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/18/18707636.php
SUMMARY:Protest Deficit Commission Chairs Simpson and Bowles
LOCATION:Paramount Theater, Oakland, 2025 Broadway, betw. 20th & 21st Sts\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/18/18707636.php
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