[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: No Cuts to Social Security]

[agnes at mcn.org]

Bernie Sanders video is well worth watching.
Agnes

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Subject: No Cuts to Social Security
From:    "U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders" <bernie at bernie.org>
Date:    Sat, October 12, 2013 5:09 am
To:      agnes at mcn.org
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                                                  Bernie's Statement on
the Fiscal Crisis

                         Burlington, Vermont, Oct. 11 &ndash; Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement
today on the 11-day-old government shutdown and
the debt ceiling:

                         &ldquo;The Republicans must stop holding the
American people hostage.  Speaker Boehner must
allow the House to vote so that they reopen the
government and pay our bills. Frankly, given the
enormous problems facing this country, it is
beyond belief that we have wasted weeks debating
whether, for the first time in our history, the
largest economy in the world should default and
plunge the world into a severe financial crisis.

                         &ldquo;Yesterday, the Republicans were using the
Affordable Care Act as the reason why they had to
shut down the government and not pay our bills.
Today, it&rsquo;s &lsquo;reforming&rsquo; Social
Security, Medicare and Medicaid. What will it be
tomorrow?

                         &ldquo;Social Security, which is independently
funded through the payroll tax, has nothing to do
with the deficit.  The deficit -- which has been
cut in half since 2009 -- was significantly
caused by the Bush wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and the Wall
Street-induced recession, which led to a
significant decline in federal revenue.

                         &ldquo;The Republican Party and Paul Ryan cannot
be allowed to get their way by threatening the
American people with a continued government
shutdown and a default unless Congress cuts
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.  That is
not what the American people want.  Rather, we
should be passing legislation which rebuilds our
infrastructure and creates millions of new jobs,
address the crisis of low wage employment by
raising the minimum wage, make college affordable
and fight for equal pay for equal work."

                         Below is a recent interview that Bernie did on
CNN with Wolf Blitzer which discusses these
issues.




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Click
here
to
watch
Bernie
and
Wolf
Blitzer
on
CNN.










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