The town hall meeting with Senator Nelson was informative

[katmondoo]

He presented the Bush Social Security plan with all of it's lies. There were a lot of repugs (this is central Florida, very red) at the meeting. I listened to some people before the Senator came in, they really were believing that you could invest part of your SS and make a lot of money. Not only did they believe this, it is their superior attitude that gets me, if I had spoken up I would have been dissed and dismissed. After Senator Nelson explained the pitfalls, he received a good hand and I do believe most people were turned around. At least I hope so.
He said the best thing we could do to help was to e-mail the Senators in Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. These were the hard line supporters of the Privitization of Social Security.
There were not as many people attending the meeting as I would have wished, partly because there was not enough notice from either Bill Nelson's people or from the democratic organization. I posted here and in the local library, that was all the time I had.

[BlueManDude]

1. Senator Nelson is firmly against privatization?

Did you get any sense that he is interested in "working" with the WH?

[katmondoo]

2. No, he is definitely against privatizing SS

[Ivote]

3. Where In Central Florida Was That Meeting

Do You know what his itinerary is?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. GA, AL, MS Senators supporting privatization... lotta poor folks in those

states.

I guess they can invest it all in lottery tickets. Who knows, they might win!