Hands Off Social Security
Folks back home defend Social Security from Republicans
July 15, 2005PITTSBURGH — “Dear congressperson: What part of ‘no privatization, no private accounts to replace Social Security’ don’t you understand?” From Louisiana to Illinois, that message rang out in the voices of “the folks back home” in...
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Farmers know bull when they hear it
June 24, 2005Conventional wisdom says a conference of 1,400 members of the Future Farmers of America (FAA) at Penn State University in rural State College would be a safe bet for President Bush to sell his plan to...
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Texans slam privatization
June 17, 2005LA MARQUE, Texas — About 200 Texans met in this small community adjacent to Texas City (location of the recent BP refinery explosion), June 11, to express their opposition to the Bush administration plan to privatize...
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No deals, no surrender: Social Security fightback rumbles across nation
June 10, 2005In towns and cities across the country, Americans are turning up the heat on Republicans as well as Democrats to guarantee that Social Security, the country’s most successful and reliable program for the people, will be...
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Social Security: We have to win this one
May 27, 2005PITTSBURGH, Penn. — Americans are talking, marching, storming congressional offices, petitioning, conducting town hall meetings and writing letters to save Social Security. Beneath the radar of headline news, the people have lit up the “third rail”...
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