I wanted to pass this along. Today my local paper, the
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle printed an op-ed I wrote on President Bush's Social Security privatization scheme. Please let me know what you think.
-LMS
Bush plan puts retirees on financially shaky ground
By Rep. Louise Slaughter
It has been said that the best measure of a society is the way that it treats its most vulnerable members. In today's America, many of our most vulnerable citizens are our seniors.
Today's seniors, and those of the future, face the challenge of avoiding the poverty and debasement that characterized the final years of many men and women of generations past, before our fellow New Yorker Franklin D. Roosevelt made his sacred pact with Americans.
Seventy years ago, Roosevelt promised that all Americans who worked hard and paid their taxes would retire with a decent, secure pension. The program he created assured that no senior would be left homeless, hungry or without a source of income.
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