Here's a new "grass-roots" group set up to mislead women about privatizing Social Security"
"For Our Grandchildren"
http://www.forourgrandchildren-pageserver.org/blog/index.php?view=180
Who set up and pays for this slick website? According to the NYTimes:
"The group is run by a woman named Sandra Jaques [a "single mom"] Mr. Bush promotes his agenda with testimonials from "regular folks," in the words of Joshua B. Bolten, the White House budget director, who introduced Ms. Jaques.
But Ms. Jaques is not any random single mother. She is the Iowa state director of a conservative advocacy group, FreedomWorks, whose founders are Jack F. Kemp, the former vice-presidential nominee, and Dick Armey, the former House Republican leader."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/politics/17mom.html
Social Security reform will be devastating to women! Even under the current system, women get less benefits because they take off time to raise their kids.
"I have a daughter at home. Her name is Wynter," said Ms. Jaques, sitting a few feet from President Bush at the White House economic conference on Thursday. "I want to make sure that she has Social Security when she retires as well."
Jacques claims that she and "a few friends" got together and started the group. She refuses to say how it's financed.
Tough luck, Wynter . . . If your misguided mom gets her way, you can look forward to a poverty-stricken old age.