Call your Senators tomorrow (Tuesday) at 1-866-529-7630, toll-free. The operator will identify your senators by asking for your zip code. Call BOTH of your senators if you have time. It only takes a minute each. There's a sample script in the email below - but basically, you can say you are calling to ask the Senators not to cut Social Security benefits in any way, including by raising the retirement age.
Note that Social Security was designed to be and still is a self-funding plan. It was Lyndon Johnson who began tapping into Social Security funds for other government operations. We've paid in - counting employer contributions for our work or our own self-employment tax - 13% to 14% of our incomes from birth to now - with the expectation of the nation keeping its side of this bargain.
The purpose of Social Security has always been to make sure that people who work in the US will always have something to live on when we are old. It was created in the depths of the Great Depression in the 1920s, when so many people were homeless and hungry. Let's not let this Great Recession (or maybe it is a Depression) of the 2000s see the breaking of the promise.
Social Security Card getting cut! "Cutting into Social Security" http://www.flickr.com/photos/truthout/4948963709/
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