Secure Retirement

We will make it a priority to secure for hardworking families the part of the American Dream that includes a secure and healthy retirement. Individuals, employers, and government must all play a role. We will adopt measures to preserve and protect existing public and private pension plans. In the 21st century, Americans also need better ways to save for retirement. We will automatically enroll every worker in a workplace pension plan that can be carried from job to job and we will match savings for working families who need the help. We will make sure that CEOs can't dump workers' pensions with one hand while they line their own pockets with the other.

We will ensure all employees who have company pensions receive annual disclosures about their pension fund’s investments, including full details about which projects have been invested in, the performance of those investments and appropriate details about probable future investments strategies. We also will reform corporate bankruptcy laws so that workers’ retirements are a priority for funding and workers are not left with worthless IOUs after years of service. Finally, we will eliminate all federal income taxes for seniors making less than $50,000 per year. Lower- and middle-income seniors already have to worry about high health care and energy costs; they should not have to worry about tax burdens as well.

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Commemorating 73rd Birthday of Social Security, Americans Across the Country Unite to 'Just Say No' to Bush-McCain Plan for Privatization

August 14, 2008 - As our nation commemorates the 73rd birthday of Social Security tomorrow, Americans across the country will gather in the culmination of week-long activities sounding the alarm on the economic impact of the McCain-Bush plan to privatize Social Security.
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MCCAIN WATCH: SAME-AS-BUSH PLAN TO PRIVATIZE SOCIAL SECURITY

August 14, 2008 - Today John McCain is celebrating the anniversary of the creation of Social Security -- the program that has helped keep retirees, surviving spouses and children and the disabled from poverty for over 70 years -- by reviving Bush's risky scheme to privatize Social Security.
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#82: Privatizing Social Security

August 14, 2008 - 82. Bush and McCain Support the Same Risky Proposal to Privatize Social Security.
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DNC Releases New Web Ad Highlighting the Threat John McCain Poses to Social Security

August 14, 2008 - On the 73rd Anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act--creating a landmark program that has saved millions of Americans from poverty--the Democratic National Committee today released a new web video called "Roosevelt" that highlights the threat John McCain's radical, out of touch agenda poses to the retirement security of millions of Americans. The ad features President Roosevelt's grandson, James Roosevelt Jr., telling John McCain to "keep your hands off our Social Security."
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McCain Attack Ad Debunked

August 11, 2008 - Brian Deese, an economic adviser to Senator Barack Obama, debunks one of John McCain's numerous negative attack ads filled with distortions. Deese takes viewers through a typical McCain attack ad on taxes and lays out all the facts on the...
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While He's Focused on Britney and Paris, Can John McCain Answer One Simple Question

July 30, 2008 - This week, John McCain and his campaign have been all over the map on a very straightforward question: would he or wouldn't he consider raising Social Security payroll taxes. After adamantly making a blanket "no new taxes" pledge during the primaries and on the campaign trail, McCain switched his position when he refused to rule it out on ABC's "This Week," instead saying all options would be on the table. McCain's campaign has been scrambling all week, giving shifting and conflicting accounts about what Senator McCain plans to do.
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Dean: John McCain Wants to Privatize Social Security

June 13, 2008 - During a town hall meeting in New Hampshire yesterday, John McCain told the voters, "I am not for privatizing Social Security. I never have been. I never will be." But as a new video released by the Democratic National Committee shows, Senator McCain clearly does support privatizing Social Security. In 2004, Senator McCain said "without privatization, I don't see how you can possibly, over time, make sure that young Americans are able to receive Social Security benefits." In 2005 Senator McCain hit the road with President Bush to help promote the President's failed effort to promote private accounts. In fact, as recently as March 2008, McCain told the Wall Street Journal he still supports President Bush's plan and is "totally in favor of personal savings accounts."
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He'll Say Anything

March 3, 2008 - An article in the Wall Street Journal today highlighted some big flip-flops in McCain's record that I think are pretty striking in how clearly shameless they are.
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McCain Promises Third Bush Term

January 8, 2008 - John McCain's Double-Talk express may have rolled past his Republican cohorts in New Hampshire after a disappointing fourth place in Iowa, but his record makes one thing clear: he offers more of the same.
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Mitt Promises Third Bush Term

January 3, 2008 - Mitt's millions may have bought himself a second-place showing at the Iowa caucuses, but he can’t buy credibility. Even Republicans think Romney is telling them what he thinks they want to hear instead of what he really believes.
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