KUCINICH: PROPOSED SOCIAL SECURITY PRICE INDEXING WOULD SLASH BENEFITS
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Social Security’s “Sleeper Issue”: Price Indexing Exposed By Kucinich. Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today brought forth a new case against the Administration’s so-called Social Security reform plan by exposing the precipitous drop in future retiree benefits implicit in the Administration plan to switch from wage indexing to price indexing. For more check out link below and the chart. . . . http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5277



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With today's debut, the members of the Climate Crisis Coalition (CCC) stress that their campaign reflects values that transcend the goal of reducing carbon emissions. In its final paragraph, the petition declares that the very act of signing affirms "our allegiance to the democratic process, our fundamental and mortal relationship with this Earth, and our essential solidarity with every other member of the human family." Stand up and be counted! What else on earth is a person supposed to do? Sign the petition to save this planet at the following link: http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2005/02/16/gelbspan/

QUOTE OF THE DAY ... Corporations have been enthroned. An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people. Until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. Abraham Lincoln