union presidents letter

joseph lipofsky jlipof at ix.netcom.com
Tue Mar 16 15:39:28 PST 1999


Tom Lehman wrote:


> Dear Doug and the LBOers,
>
> A copy of a letter on social security from George Becker, Stephen
> Yokich, James Hoffa Jr. and others on, No privatization of social
> security......

the attached comes from a weekly e mail update from the afl-cio-are the uaw, uswa, teamsters et al taking a different position than the afl?

SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE, ROUND 1 Next week, the House

and Senate are expected to vote on competing plans to

finance Social Security. One proposal, supported by the AFL-

CIO, contains President Clinton s plan to strengthen Social

Security and Medicare by reserving 77 percent of the

combined federal surlus which includes non-Social Security

surpluses along with the Social Security trust fund to

preserve those two vital working family programs. The GOP

leadership s plan ignores Medicare, doesn t commit a single

new dollar to Social Security beyond what is already in the

trust fund and opens the door for more tax cuts for the rich

and replacing Social Security with private accounts. The

plan claims to be a "lockbox," but the legislative trapdoor

that allows surplus monies to be used for private accounts

makes it more like an "unsafe" deposit box. It is crucial

that working families speak up in support of the president s

proposal. Call your representatives in Congress toll-free at

1-877-722-7494 and urge them to support President Clinton's

standard for strengthening Social Security and Medicare.



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