Happy birthday Social Security and many, many happy returns
by digby
Social Security works is out with this:
Happy Birthday, Social Security – Now Let’s Finally Give You A Raise
This Wednesday, August 14th, Social Security will celebrate 78 years of never missing a single payment and helping millions of Americans live with dignity and honor. This birthday, we have a unique opportunity to give Social Security a real raise for it’s birthday, expanding benefits and paying for it by ensuring billionaires pay the same rate as the rest of us.
That’s why we’re working with Social Security Works to help you tell your Member of Congress that you stand for expanding Social Security benefits at a time of great need, and scrapping the cap on Social Security funding.
In other words, sign our birthday card alongside thousands of others:
I can’t tell you how happy I am that institutional and grassroots progressives have finally come around to the idea that we need to raise benefits on Social Security. It’s going to take a while to get the usual suspects to stop thinking of this as taboo because “entitlements” are the boogeyman that’s going to kill us in our beds. But it can be done if everyone sticks to the message and they don’t run off to chase the next shiny object the first chance they get.
This is a really good and necessary idea and we need to just keep hammering it until it happens.
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