Bold progressive Alan Grayson will be returning to Congress in January.
Last night, Grayson appeared on The Young Turks and pushed back on demands from corporate-backed groups like the Campaign To Fix The Debt that Congress cut Social Security or Medicare benefits as part of a “Grand Bargain.”
ai???The Democratic Party should be united,ai??? said Grayson. ai???We are the party that created Social Security. We are the party that created Medicare. We should stand behind it, and we should protect it. Itai??i??s amazingly popular among the voters. Why should we shoot ourselves in the head by saying weai??i??re going to end these programs, or even cut back these programs, when we created them, and the voters love them?ai???
Watch it:
Remember that it was thanks to the efforts of Progressive Change Campaign Committee members — we made 216,577 calls for him and raised $56,684 from 5,429 donations — that Grayson will be returning to Congress.
Keep the pressure on them Mr. Grayson!!
First of all i say let sequester happen. Social Security & Medicare will be exempt from the automatic cuts. 2nd, any deal even coupled with tax increases will permanently cut SS&Medicare. But if republicans get majorities again, taxed will come down and further cuts to SS&Medicare will again be threatened. And finally Lets Not Make A Deal! Social Security & Medicare have nothing to do with the federal deficit or debt. Someone PLEASE, expose this UNIFIED BUDGET SLIGHT OF HAND and operate on trust fund budget instead. The right wing doesn’t want this conversation!!
we are working on having a demonstration in front of our local Walmart in western MA…I understand that Congressman Elect Allen Grayson had a flyer regarding workers rights…I would like to have a copy of this flyer and also have the reference so that we can become familiar with Worker’s Rights…better yet is there a PERSON I could speak with…thanks
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