Tag Archives: Social Security

“I don’t think our founding fathers when they were putting the term ‘general welfare’ in there were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care. What they clearly said was that those were issues that the states need to address. Not the federal government. I stand very clear on that. From my …

Another classic from the rant king.

Speaking to Fox News Sunday today, Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Medicare and Social Security “a Ponzi scheme” and unconstitutional. “Do the things you’re supposed to do, like securing our border, like delivering the mail — preferably on time and on Saturdays — before you get involved in things that the Constitution doesn’t say one word about, like health care,” …

In this ad Angle claims to want to save Social Security (from Harry Reid, of course), but that’s certainly not what she’s said in the past: “We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized. I’m saying it can’t be fixed. It’s broken.”

Watch this gay man’s story about being denied his late partner’s Social Security benefits, funds that are automatically transferred to any straight spouse that has been married for ten minutes. (Tipped by JMG reader Bradley)

Hundreds of activists and politicians rallied in West Hollywood this weekend calling for equality in Social Security benefits. Speakers included Sen. Barbara Boxer and NGLTF head Rea Carey. State and local officials joined hundreds of people outside the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in Hollywood on Sunday morning to kick off a national grass-roots campaign demanding equal Social Security …

Rock For Equality’s amazing clip about Social Security discrimination, which I posted here several weeks ago, has been named a finalist in the YouTube DoGooders Non-Profit Video Awards. Instructions on how to vote are below and here, followed by Rock For Equality’s stunning clip.

Today the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution calling on the federal government to end Social Security policies that discriminate against same-sex couples. Via press release from the LA Gay & Lesbian Center: “LGBT workers pay into the system like everyone else,” said Councilmember Koretz, “so the federal government has no business denying same-sex couples equal benefits. It’s unfair, …

JMG reader Sean Chapin tips us to this astonishingly well-produced clip from Rock For Equality which exposes the inequities of Social Security benefits for same-sex couples. Rock For Equality will be staging protest rallies at Social Security offices in Los Angeles and Washington DC during tax week.