Clinton promises to save Social Security by Delia Cruceru

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton promised in front of the Alliance for Retired Americans, that if she is going to be elected as president of United States she will not cut the Social Security services and neither will raise the retirement age or privatize the taxpayer-funded system. "This is the most successful domestic program in the history of the United States," Clinton said. When I'm president, privatization is off the table because it's not the answer to anything." She mentioned in her speech that her husband, former president Bill Clinton left a secure Social Security system until 2055 and that now, George W. Bush took the system in to deficit. She said that raising the retirement age and reducing the benefits is not an answer. "We need to get back to the fiscal responsibility that we had in the 1990s," she said. Clinton also appealed to Union workers make up a majority of the Alliance's membership, supporting the "Employer Free Choice Act," legislation (HR 800) that would make it easier for workers to join unions. The former first lady is expected to formally unveil her plan for providing universal health care coverage, saying that her health cost control plan would trim at least $120 billion a year from national health care spending.

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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