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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 >Free U.S. policy toward Bahrain from the chess game with Iran
It's not right for U.S. officials to pontificate about human rights abuses in Syria, where the U.S. has little influence, but then to stay quiet while human rights are abused in Bahrain, where the U.S. has much more influence, because it's claimed that staying quiet about abuses by the government of Bahrain serves U.S. policy against Iran.
Join us in urging President Obama and Congress to delink U.S. policy on Bahrain from U.S. policy towards Iran, so the U.S. can end its silence over the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain, by using the form below.