Rep. Paul Ryan’s latest budget is coming to the floor in the House of Representatives this week. It’s disastrous for the middle class, just like in years past. This budget would dismantle Medicare, cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans and set our Social Security system on course for destruction. Fortunately, there’s another budget that will get a vote this week: The Congressional Progressive Caucus’ Better Off Budget. Click here to call your Representative in the House and ask them to reject the Ryan budget and support the Better Off Budget. As a citizen co-sponsor, you already know that the Better Off Budget reverses the damage done by the across-the-board budget cuts known as the “sequester.” It creates 8.8 million new jobs by investing in job training programs, rebuilding our country’s crumbling infrastructure and providing states with the resources to hire public employees such as police, firefighters and health care workers. Separate from the federal budget process, the proposal also endorses expanding Social Security with the Harkin/Sanchez bill, to create a real prosperity agenda for America and a total rejection of the failed policies of austerity. That bill would: Increase cost of living adjustments--not cut them Make the richest Americans pay their fair share into the system Increase Social Security benefits for everyone by $800 per year The kicker is that this budget still reduces the deficit by more than $4 trillion over ten years. After the budget battles that have been waged over the last few years, we need a budget that rejects austerity, invests in our retirement security and puts Americans back to work and leaves us all better off. Click here to call your Representative in the House and ask them to reject Paul Ryan’s budget and support the Better Off Budget. We can’t reverse the growing trend of economic inequality in America without addressing the retirement security crisis and without creating new decent paying jobs. And this budget and action plan does both! Thank you, Michael Phelan Social Security Works
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:56:33 +0000
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