Harry Reid: Cuts To Social Security Off The Table

                  Original Article

Harry Reid: Social Security "Off The Table"

by Forrest Brown       Mon Jan 31, 2011

Did you ever wonder if your voice is actually heard by political leaders after you sign a petition or share your personal story on issues like Social Security?

Last week, PCCC members delivered over 50,000 notes directly to Senator Harry Reid -- thanking him for boldly opposing cuts to Social Security. We also read notes from PCCC members like you out loud.

Click here to watch video from the event -- and join our effective campaign to protect Social Security.

After listening to the powerful stories of PCCC members, Senator Reid took an even stronger stand for Social Security than he did before.

At our event, Senator Reid said "it's become the official position of the Republican Party to privatize and dismantle Social Security" -- which he called "the most successful social program in the history of the world."

The Majority Leader then vowed to do everything in his power to keep Social Security "off the table." Reid's words in the PCCC video made news today in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, TPM and Huffington Post. This is big news, as many politicians on both sides of the aisle have refused to take this position.

Click here to watch video from the event, including more bold statements from Reid. Then, join our effective campaign to protect Social Security.

PCCC members Larry Fleisher, Gloria Spottswood, and David Klutts were also eloquent voices at the event. We know their stories and others were heard! You can see them on the video too.

Technorati Tags: Social Security,Budget Cuts,Harry Reid,PCCC,Current Events

Tweets After Mubarak’s Speech

Watch Al Jazeera Live

    The latest Tweets since Mubarak gave his speech earlier.

glcarlstrom State television airing a Mubarak biopic, now recounting his days in the air force (sort of glossed over that whole 1967/1973 thing). · reply

AymanM History may be repeating itself. Former tunisian prez Ben Ali gave 3 speeches and said not re-running in elex b4 fleeing #Egypt #jan25 #feb1 8 minutes ago · reply

AymanM #mubarak announcement that he won't seek re-elex in sept not enough 4 #Egypt protesters who respond w angry chants #jan25 #feb1 11 minutes ago · reply

glcarlstrom One line that jumped out at me in Mubarak's speech: "I will die on this soil." Translation: "I won't follow in Ben Ali's footsteps." #jan25 16 minutes ago · reply

Technorati Tags: President MubarakTwitter,Tweets,Egypt Protesters,Democracy,Al Jazeera,Cuirrent Events

testing

having posting problems. Just checking

A Remarkable Thing In Egypt Revolution

    President Mubarak has announced that he will not seek another term as the President of Egypt. he still is appearing to stay put. Go to  Al Jazeera Live for reactions to his speech, which just ended.  He sounded just like an American Republican politician, talk a lot but say nothing.

   Update:  Al Jazeera has just reported that the military is trying to find a way for Mubarak to leave while saving face.  He is widely respected by the military as "one of their own" and they do not want him to be seen as being "thrown out".

 This is something that I haven’t thought about.

by Granny Doc     Tue Feb 01, 2011

For a week now, I have been puzzling over the various comments, and attempts to gin up hysteria, pervading the media coverage of the popular uprising in Cairo.  There was something askew, leaking through in such small doses, that I could not put into words what was bothering me.  Then, this morning, Chuck Todd said it,  "A peaceful movement without a leader."

Imagine the horror of that!!

It is possible for millions of people to gather and without some jacknape with an AK47 threatening them, they can police themselves.

The BBC and CNN have reported that groups are searching those who want to join the demonstration and, if they find weapons they turn that individual and their guns, over to the military.  If they are not armed, they shake their hands and escort them to the center of the square. 

People sharing their increasingly limited food stuffs, offering shelter and water, and standing guard over the sleeping protesters.  Singing.  Yelling.  Dancing.

And all without "official" sanction, "crowd control", or authoritarian strutting.  A world that doesn't NEED "leaders".

How that must terrify everyone who thinks they are in control of something or other!

After decades of a popular media producing films of crowds gone wild, women who scream, men who can't control their violent impulses, and the need for a "strong" leader to keep civilization on track, what must it do the subtext of every disaster, political, and religious themed attempt to cow the public into accepting an overlord?

We don't need no stinkin' badges!

Technorati Tags: Egypt,Protesters,Revolution,Leadership,Current Events