Kalamazoo,  Michigan—Today members and the leadership of Michigan Citizen Action (MCA), expressed their outrage after the release of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform’s equal opportunity disaster of a report that would gut Social Security for virtually every American alive and yet to be born including today’s seniors and persons with disabilities.

“The President and every member of Congress should declare the Social Security benefit cuts dead on arrival, just as Americans would have made them DOA if they had been given a chance to vote on this plan last Tuesday,“ said Linda Teeter, Executive Director of MCA.

“This report cuts benefits for today’s middle-aged and middle-income workers who have already sustained huge losses in their retirement savings due to loss of housing equity and 401K/IRA savings,” said Eric Kingson, co-director of Strengthen Social Security Campaign.  “It cuts benefits for the youngest workers by raising their retirement age to 68.  And for today’s toddlers by raising theirs to 69!”

Michigan Citizen Action is part of the Strengthen Social Security Campaign which consists of more than 215 organizations representing more than 50 million Americans.

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