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Cut Social Security & Veterans' Benefits? Cut the Pentagon Instead!
President Obama has endorsed cutting Social Security and veterans' benefits by using the "chained CPI" to lower the cost-of-living adjustment. The Congressional Budget Office says cutting Social Security and veterans' benefits in this way would save the government $163 billion over ten years. But there are much better ways for the government to save $163 billion. Email President Obama and Congress >Leave Iraq on Time: Don't Cut Social Security and Medicare to Pay for Occupation
While some in Washington want to cut Social Security benefits and raise the retirement age for Medicare, the White House and the Pentagon are planning to increase spending on the U.S. occupation of Iraq by extending the U.S. military presence in Iraq with no Congressional debate.
Reps. Barbara Lee, Walter Jones, and 75 other Members of the House have a different idea: withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq on the schedule that the U.S. and Iraqi governments agreed upon in 2008 and that President Obama has touted as fulfillment of his campaign promise to end the Iraq war.
Please write your Member of Congress urging him or her to sign the Lee-Jones letter to the President insisting that U.S. troops leave Iraq on time by using the form below.