Social Security Privatization Would Disproportionately Harm Gays

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/08/080905socSec.htm

A report released Tuesday shows that LGBT Americans would be disproportionately affected by the President's plan to privatize Social Security.

The report, prepared for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, found that LGBT Americans, on average, have lower incomes than their heterosexual counterparts, which translates into lower Social Security benefits when they retire.

In addition, same-sex couples are not eligible for Social Security’s spousal and survivor benefits provisions, making the LGBT community disproportionately vulnerable to the benefit cuts and risks inherent to the president's plan.

[despairing optimist]

1. Well, the good news is that SS privatization is just about DOA

So for now the bullet has been dodged. There's lots of other stuff on the trogs' plate: Plame, Roberts and other Supreme Court nominees, Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran and Syria (?), AIPAC spy scandal, and on and on. And the best news is, people are on to the SS scam, even the red voters.

As for most people actually caring about LGBTs and their fate at any age, I wonder about that all the time.

[Dark]

2. That's odd. I've heard we have higher pay. I guess all those

theater majors are doing us in.

[wli]

3. no wonder the neocons want it