National Nurses United To Flood U.S. Senate With Calls Opposing Cuts In Social Security, Medicare &

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Workers Independent News

By Doug Cunningham

Nurses across America are flooding members of the U.S. Senate with calls today and tomorrow opposing cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Republicans are holding those popular programs hostage, demanding they be cut before a higher federal debt ceiling is approved. Radical Republicans are risking a economic catastrophe. If they don’t agree to raise the debt ceiling soon the federal government could be forced into default. Massive worker layoffs, a huge stock market dive and an interruption in Social Security checks are just a few of the bad things that would happen in a default. National Nurses United says raising the Medicare age to 67 as Obama has proposed could have calamitous consequences for already struggling working families. Meanwhile a recent Pew research poll shows solid majorities of Americans oppose cuts to Social Security and Medicare. The nurses say the deficit America faces – the reason these cuts are on the table - is because politicians refuse to modestly increase taxes on corporations and the wealthy to sustain health care for the poor and elderly. For an alternative to austerity budget cuts, go to www.mainstreetcontract.org


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[No Elephants]

1. Only the nurses? Where are big health care providers and PHRMA?

Common, guys and gals. Your huge profit margins are involved. Get on the stick and lobby it up.

ETA: Nurses are angels, IMO.

[StevesRedLens]

2. Everybody Should Call Too!!

There are other movements too encouraging citizens to call. I plan to!
http://strengthensocialsecurity.org/callcongress

[Liberalynn]

3. Bless them all

My late Mom was a nurse. How I miss her.

[somone]

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