Democratic Minority Leader
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, launching what she vowed will be an aggressive effort against President Bush's Social Security privatization, told cheering supporters in San Francisco on Wednesday that the plan is a costly "diversionary tactic'' by the administration and a blatant "attempt to divide the generations" on the values of a crucial social program.
"It's absolutely stunning, the rip-off that it is,'' Pelosi told a town hall meeting on Social Security, which drew overflow crowds of hundreds to the San Francisco Library. The minority leader said her appearance was part of a nationwide Democratic effort this week to hold at least 100 meetings and "raise the drumbeat'' against the Bush plan.
"We will not be part of increasing the deficit ... or being unfair to women and minorities,'' who rely overwhelmingly on social security in their senior years, Pelosi said.
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