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McCain Social Security Protest
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Local Seniors
To Protest John McCain’s Plan To Privatize Social
Security
Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans
Rallies Outside Social Security Office,
Responds to Bush-McCain Scheme
For Immediate
Release:
Phoenix, AZ – Tomorrow morning,
the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans will
unite with Arizona retirees and a coalition of
public interest groups outside a Phoenix Social
Security office to protest Senator John
McCain’s support for Social Security
privatization.
In an interview appearing
in the March 3 edition on The Wall Street
Journal, McCain said, “As part of Social
Security reform, I believe that private savings
accounts are a part of it -- along the lines
that President Bush proposed.”
The
proposal Senator McCain now favors is the same
Bush privatization plan rejected by the
American people in 2005 for jeopardizing the
economic security of current and future
retirees and ravaging guaranteed benefits for
seniors and the disabled.
“It's no
wonder George W. Bush endorsed John McCain.
They have a lot in common - including both
wanting to privatize Social Security,” said
Doug Hart, President of the Arizona Alliance
for Retired Americans. “Under the Bush-McCain
scheme, our Social Security benefits would be
thrown to the whims of the stock market. We get
all the risk, but Wall Street gets all the
reward.”
Date:
Friday, March 7,
2008
Time:
10:00 AM
Location:
Social Security
Office
Suite
100
250 N Seventh
Ave
Phoenix, Arizona
85007
Contact: Joan
Serviss, (623) 225-6728 or
jserviss@retiredamericans.org
Marcie Kohenak, (202) 637-5178 or
mkohenak@retiredamericans.org