Sunday, February 15, 2009

Don't "fix" social security

Dear President Obama,

I read with alarm where some in your administration are apparently transfixed by the mythology that Social Security is 'broken' and needs 'fixing.' Social security is not broken, and in fact is solvent with only minor need for adjustments in the future. Medicare, largely due to a generally broken health care system, is of course a different story. Please understand. The people who elected you did so in large part as a rejection of Bush economic policies as well as other failed and terrible policies: decidedly including his terrible, stupid plan to destroy Social Security. Social Security is a touchstone of stability and minimal financial security for ordinary Americans, and we will not tolerate any attempts to "jigger" it or reduce it.

Thank you.

David Studhalter

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