SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY
Friday, October 27th, 2017At 9:41 pm on Thursday, October 26, I got an email from an organization of members of the Democratic party that the House of representatives had voted to pass “a budget DESTROYING Medicare and Social Security.” Below is a link to an article published earlier today which says the Senate budget “sets up a tax giveaway to the rich, paid for by cutting Medicare and Medicaid.” You can read that article at the link below:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-senate-budget-sets-up-a-tax-giveaway-to-the-rich_us_59e649cce4b0432b8c11ea82
In my seventy-second year, having worked from the age of fourteen (in addition to getting an education in those early years), I have been retired since I turned seventy. As an artist, I never earned a lot of money but always managed to live without debt till I retired at age seventy. I am now living on my social security payments, which I did not claim till I was seventy. If Social Security, which I paid into from every check I earned (which I think all Americans do), were to be destroyed, I would now be without income. I am surely one of many people in this country in a similar situation.
Social Security old age payments are not gifts; we have paid into the fund for decades, we who retire after a long life of work.
Below is a link to a petition to the US Senate which you can sign if you choose to. It is something we can do in this time of peril for Social Security in this country.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/senate-gop-budget-cuts-trillions-from-medicare-and-medicaid-take-action-now?refcode=huffpost
I urge you to sign that petition and to work to save Social Security for us all.