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DESCRIPTION:August 14: Preserve, Improve, and Expand Social Security\nMonday, August 
 14, 12 Noon,  in Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza\nBroadway and 14th St,  12th 
 St BART Station.\n\nRally and Two-Block March to Federal 
 Building\nConfirmed Speakers to date:\nAlex Lawson: Executive Director, 
 Social Security Works\nNorman Solomon: Author, Columnist, 
 Activist\n\nSocial Security is alive and well now, but just like Medicaid 
 and Medicare, Social Security  is under attack.  We must defend it.  Join 
 us on Social Security's 82 birthday to celebrate it, and re-dedicate 
 ourselves to defend and improve Social Security and all these vital 
 programs.\n\nOver its 82 years, Social Security has provided income and 
 dignity for hundreds of millions of retirees and people with disabilities, 
 their spouses and children, and for deceased workers' spouses and children. 
 For two thirds of seniors, it's over half their income. Half of women and 
 people with disabilities would be in poverty without Social Security. 
 Almost 10% of children get it. We will NOT go back to the days of 
 workhouses!\n\nSocial Security is the nation's most effective anti-poverty 
 program, yet it is entirely funded by we who work for a living, through 
 FICA deductions from our paychecks, and by our employers. Not a cent comes 
 from the government.  In fact, our $2.8 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund 
 is invested in loans to help the government run. Those loans must be repaid 
 to Social Security. It's our program, our money! Our past, our 
 future!\n\nFor years, the same corporate and financial vultures who 
 eliminated defined-benefit employee pensions have also tried to destroy 
 Social Security. Their hedge-fund crooks like Peter Peterson put out fake 
 studies to undermine people's faith in Social Security. Their official 
 Commissions, like Bowles/Simpson recommend: Raising the Retirement age. 
 Cutting benefits and cost-of-living increases.  Worst of all, turning 
 Social Security into private individual accounts for each recipient, 
 invested in risky Wall Street stock market accounts with expensive 
 management fees.  Instead of having a unified program of 
 collectively-guaranteed economic security for everyone, we'd be individuals 
 at the mercy of Wall Street's insider trading and boom-and-bust 
 whims.\n\nNow, the Trump administration wants to eliminate the payroll tax, 
  which is the financial foundation of Social Security. And Trump's 2018 
 budget calls for $64 Billion in cuts over the next ten years to Social 
 Security Disability Insurance, an integral part of Social Security. Most of 
 these "savings" would come from reduced future enrollment because of new 
 work requirements.\n\nWe have a different plan: Scrap the $127,000 cap and 
 make the rich pay Social Security tax on all their income.  Raise benefits 
 to cover actual cost of living and disappearing pensions.  Enact a 
 realistic cost-of-living formula. Provide benefits for time caring for 
 young children.  Restore student benefits for children of deceased or 
 disabled covered parents.  \n\nWe must remember that our parents, 
 grandparents, and great-grandparents won Social Security in the mid-1930s, 
 the depths of the Great Depression, when everything looked stacked against 
 us. Social Security must be preserved, improved, and expanded. In the 
 1930s, Roosevelt said "Make me do it!"  We did. We can do it again. We must 
 do it again!\n\nCalifornia Alliance for Retired Americans, 510-663-4086, 
 \n600 Grand Ave, Rm 410, Oakland CA, 94610, californiaalliance.org\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/07/29/18801110.php
SUMMARY:Preserve, Improve, and Expand Social Security
LOCATION:Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza\nBroadway and 14th St,  12th St BART Station.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/07/29/18801110.php
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