Have you seen ads by the Social Security Institute on TV? I just saw one. It was going by so fast I

[GreenPartyVoter]

had trouble keeping up with it. Do you know anything about this group? I am off to check out their website: http://socialsecurityinstitute.com/

[abelenkpe]

1. Lew Rockwell

They are libertarians

From site:

CORE ISSUES

The Social Security Institute is a 501(C)(4), not-for-profit seniors' advocacy organization with conservative positions on core issues of interest to America's older population.

SSI's core issues are:

Social Security
1. Stop the raid on the Social Security Trust Funds
2. Abolish the Social Security benefits tax
3. Eliminate the Social Security earnings limit
4. Long-term Social Security reform

Medicare
1. Stop health care rationing
2. Prevent Medicare cuts for current beneficiaries
3. Long-term Medicare reform allowing seniors to opt out of Medicare

Taxes/Spending
1. Abolish the estate and gift tax (death tax)
2. Abolish the capital gains tax
3. Overhaul the federal tax system
4. Enact a spending and tax limitation amendment
5. Stop corporate bailouts and cut wasteful spending


They are no friend.

[pinboy3niner]

2. +100

And their president, Larry Hunter, was a longtime GOP advisor.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Apparently he bailed on the Rs.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. That explains why they were bashing both the Rs and Ds.

[abelenkpe]

3. More on Lew Rockwell

LewRockwell.com
www.lewrockwell.com/
An anti-state/pro-market site on the net run by the president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

This is the bigoted asshat who wrote Ron Paul's newsletters. Beware libertarian/Paulites. They've already got a strong following with college age students. This social security institute looks like an attempt to gain older supporters. Where did you see this ad?

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. TvLand channel on Dish. It was really fast and kinda hard to take in other than it was pitching

that Dems and repubs are both planning to raid medicare etc etc. Also threw out a couple more lines (which I can't remember now) that just seemed to raise a few more flags.

Unfortunately my memory isn't what it used to be, and I was on DU and listening to my kids at the same moment. So I missed a lot and forgot the rest.