RONNIE WERNER: My name is Ronnie Werner. I’m a longtime Rye resident. After 35 years, I retired and having Medicare gives my husband and me enormous peace of mind. ANNCR: New Hampshire seniors rely on Medicare. ANNCR: When Scott Brown represented Massachusetts, he voted to cut Medicare and Social Security… TEXT: Scott Brown TEXT: “Brown To Seniors: Social Security, Medicare Could Be Cut” SOURCES: Boston Globe, 8/8/11; Vote 116, 7/22/11 ANNCR: … while giving tax breaks to millionaires and oil companies. RONNIE WERNER:Scott Brown is no friend to New Hampshire. All of these releases came with a ton of citations to back up the claims. But there is also the fact that in general, Republicans have been trying to privatize Social Security and cut Medicare for a long time, and this isn’t something that should even be a matter of debate given that within their ideology, these are socialist programs that should not exist. As the Republican Party goes further and further to the right, it is not a surprise that they adopt more Libertarian/Tea Party corporatist platforms that push for giving more tax breaks to millionaires while cutting social programs. The thing is, no matter what side of the aisle you identify with, we can all agree that Social Security was created for a reason and that reason is also the reason why it can’t be tied to the stock market. Factcheckers will quibble over names, but without the safety net provided by Social Security as it works now, there is no safety net. While private accounts sound glamorous and exciting, the reality is that plunging stock market left people penniless. The plunging Bush market crash of 2008 wiped out private retirement accounts. We’ve already invented this wheel. Without Social Security, where would our seniors be? We are judged, as a society, by how we care for our young, our elderly, our vulnerable. Tossing seniors to the Wall Street wolves is not a family values plan. Americans love their Social Security and Medicare, and Republicans need to stop talking about “reforming” them as an excuse to funnel seniors’ money to Wall Street. politicususa/2014/10/27/democrats-pound-republicans-push-privatize-cut-social-security-medicare.html https://youtube/watch?v=S77VzJA4E8Q
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