Groups with friendly, politically-correct
sounding names such as For our Grandchildren, Alliance for Worker
Retirement Security,  Women for Social Security Choice [get
it?  women…choice…oh, they are shameless!] are all part of the
strategy to convince the country that we need to rid ourselves of that
dastardly program, Social Security.  And to add insult to injury,
they call themselves grassroots organizations while receiving
funding from such groups as right-wing zealots, Club for Growth (the one
they’re willing to name)…Read on.  Then write a letter to your
local newspaper. 

Help reframe this issue for the asleep-at-the-wheel media by calling it
what it is.  This is not about reform, updating, reshaping or overhaul: 
this is an attempt to dismantle, undo, take down, rob, destroy, Social
Security, a government program that works.



New York Times


By Edmund L. Andrews



WASHINGTON, Dec. 16
– Introduced as a “single mom” from Iowa, Sandra Jaques was cool and
confident as she praised Bush's plan to partly replace Social
Security with private savings accounts. 



But Ms.
Jaques is not any random single mother. She is the Iowa state director
of a conservative advocacy group, FreedomWorks, whose founders are Jack
F. Kemp, the former vice-presidential nominee, and Dick Armey, the
former House Republican leader.


[Another
advocate for private accounts] Leanne Abdnor said she had raised
start-up money from friends, whom she would not identify. She said the
group would wage a publicity campaign to counter groups that oppose
private accounts.


Support
for overhauling Social Security also comes from numerous self-described
grass-roots organizations: For Our Grandchildren, which employed Ms.
Jaques as a director in Iowa; SocialSecurityChoice.org, backed by
pro-business political groups like Club for Growth; and USANext, a
Virginia-based group run by Charles Jarvis, a former Reagan
administration official.

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