California Alliance for Retired Americans (aka CARA) members Defend Social Security

by CARA media collective

Tue, Mar 1, 2011 3:08PM

On Monday, February 21, 2011 California Alliance for Retired Americans (aka CARA) converged on the Monterey, California Conference Center from all over California to attack the cat food commissions BS Boys - Erskine Bowles and Alan K. Simpson who have been going around the US spreading lies about Social Security and trying to privatize it.

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Obama's (faux) Deficit Commission continues its attack on the solvent Social Security program in the service of the same people who continue to bring us the collapse of the American housing market - Wall Street and the Banks.

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§Clever demonstration

by ...thanks for posting

Thu, Mar 3, 2011 1:59AM

The Monterey Herald called the group of demonstrators "feisty but good-natured", that sounds about right looking at this video. Best part is at about 1:10 where that one protester dressed like a fat cat in a top hat is shoveling from a bucket labelled BS... clever....
Great shots of people entering the building and their reactions to being "fliered".

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Thu, Mar 3, 2011 8:32PM

My parents live mainly off social security, one is severely disabled. I near retirement age myself. I thank you for fighting against this bullshit. Privatization is not the answer. I agree SS is currently solvent, certainly for the next 20 years or more if they keep their hands out of the coffers. There are many things that can make SS even better without making it privatized. Privatization will mean it will be profit driven and far less transparent than it is already.

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