Celebrate and Defend Social Security on its 75th Birthday
When: Saturday, August 14th, from 11 AM to 1 PM
Where: the New Federal Building, 7th and Mission Streets, San Francisco, (one block from Civic Center BART/Muni)
Protecting Social Security is important to our health. Please join with us this Saturday to protect Social Security from Wall St. See announcement below.
Please let us know if you plan to attend. Call 415–695-7891 or email
Celebrate Social Security’s 75th Birthday Defend Social Security! Defend Our Future!
Join Congresswomen Pelosi and Speier and Senators Feinstein and Boxer (invited guests).
Americans of every age must work together to make sure that the current attacks on this important family retirement program are not successful.
Please join the California Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA) and the San Francisco Central Labor Council for a celebration of America’s most successful social program. With Social Security, through our own work and contributions, our families count on:
- Independence and dignity for seniors
- Support for widows and children and people with disabilities
- A secure future
Cake and refreshments will be served.
RSVP to CARA, 415–550-0828 or 510–663-4086
or email ksmith@californiaalliance.org
Saturday, August 14th at 11am
Join 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.
The 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.
Social 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.
This 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.
Representatives of Bay Area US Congresspersons and US Senators are invited to hear our message, and respond. Similar events are planned for Fresno, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Some additional Bay Area sponsors are SF Gray Panthers, Senior Action Network, Older Women’s League, SF.
This event is free and wheelchair accessible.
Michael Lyon
128 Faith St.
San Francisco CA 94110
415–215-7575