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From: "Michael Phelan, Social Security Works" <michael.phelan@socialsecurity-works.org>

Subject: The Washington Post Heard You

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Michael,

This week the elite media took notice of the work you're doing. And they weren't happy.

The Washington Post editorial that ran Monday morning channeled the right-wing line that, "entitlement programs...represent the lion’s share of federal expenditure growth in the coming decades." And, when discussing how to pay for the future of Social Security, they had the audacity to say, “even the rich have finite resources.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren read Sunday's Washington Post, though. And she took to the Senate floor to say:

"The Washington Post ran an editorial mocking the idea of a looming retirement crisis. To make sure no one missed the point, they even put the words “retirement crisis” in quotation marks. No retirement crisis? Tell that to the millions of Americans who are facing retirement without a pension. Tell that to the millions of Americans who have nothing to fall back on except Social Security."

Every day, we work to make sure that our champions like Sen. Elizabeth Warren have a bigger megaphone than the Washington Post editorial board.

Let’s be clear: Social Security has a $2.7 trillion surplus and has never contributed to the deficit. And, if we simply asked the very wealthy to pay the same rate as everyone else, we could increase Social Security benefits to nearly everyone instead of cutting benefits.

Click here to make sure that the rest of DC understands that Sen. Warren stands with the vast majority of Americans, and that the American people stand with her.

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Right now, a handful of billionaires are working to pit the young against the old. Why? Because they are terrified that Americans will band together to break the stranglehold the rich have on the politicians and the media.

We need to continue to speak truth to power and call for expanding Social Security benefits and asking millionaires and billionaires to pay the same rate as the rest of us to pay for it.

Please donate to Social Security Works today to continue our efforts to expand, not cut Social Security. <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=U3gC8r2OnyDSfh%2FOetw8vZl3ygbm8CZm>

We know what we are up against, but together we can counter the unlimited spending of Wall Street billionaires and change the narrative in Washington.

Thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Michael Phelan

Social Security Works