Welcome!
Welcome to the Save Social Security blog. This blog was established to document exactly where each representative and senator in the 109th Congress stands on Social Security "privatization", a.k.a. Social Security abolition.
UPDATE: Josh Marshall has come up with a better system than this, so I've decided to shut this one down. Thanks to everyone who helped. I've been amazed at the level of support I've gotten, and the volume of e-mails, but I can no longer keep the site going alone. Thanks for your support.
How you can help
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1. Look up all of your Senators and Representatives
2a. Visit your legislator's website and see if they have an "issues" section. If they do, check if they specifically mention Social Security. If they are blatantly supporting privatization or are blatantly against it, we can assume they will support whatever bill goes to Congress.
2b. Call your Legislators, and find out if they are Strongly Against, Leaning Against, On the Fence, Leaning For, or Strongly For Social Security Privatization.
2c. Check mainstream media articles and see if any legislators are blatantly pro- or anti-privatization.
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Connecticut
Senate:
Senator Joe Lieberman (D)
Unknown
Senator Christopher J. Dodd (D)
Strongly Against (Thanks to Alex T.)
House:
1 John B. Larson (D)
Unknown
2 Rob Simmons (R)
Strongly Against (Thanks to Alex T.)
3 Rosa L. DeLauro (D)
Unknown
4 Christopher Shays (R)
Unknown
5 Nancy L. Johnson (R)
Unknown
4 Comments:
"I never use the term 'privatization' when talking about Social Security," Johnson said. The paper writes, "The congresswoman said she prefers offering 'young Americans' the choice to invest two percent of their Social Security benefits in the private market." [New Britain Herald, 10/27/02]
According to Associated Press’s Diane Scaroponi, Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT) “supports the idea of allowing workers to invest 2 percent of their taxable wages in stocks for individual Social Security accounts.” “I want younger workers to have that option, to invest in a personal account just like federal employees have that option,"Johnson said. "One solution is clearly to give younger people a sense of ownership over their Social Security benefit."
Here's a site that may be helpful for determining if Simmons is telling the truth. Somehow, I doubt his word on his site is worth a damn.
http://www.signthepledge.org/privatizers/index.cfm
You're right, it seems I was a bit too hasty (i'm Alex T.)
http://www.signthepledge.org/docUploads/Simmons_10.17.pdf
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