<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Dear Joseph, Did you know? that some politicians want to: Gamble with your Social Security They want to fix Social Security, which isn't broken, by investing the Social Security Trust Fund in the stock market. The United Steelworkers of America Political Action Fund(Political Action Committee) Your email pal, Tom Lehman joseph lipofsky wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>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.</blockquote> </html>