U.S. Representative Sandy Levin
12th District of Michigan
| For Immediate Release January 31, 2006 |
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PRESIDENT BUSH DOESN’T HAVE A GOOD TRACK RECORD ON SOCIAL SECURITY COMMISSIONS |
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(Washington D.C.)- U.S. Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI), Ranking member on the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, released the following statement in response to the President's 2006 State of the Union address:
“The President doesn’t have a good track record on Social Security Commissions after appointing only privatizers to the last one he formed in 2001. Democrats have a long history of participating in fully bi-partisan efforts to strengthen Social Security, one that will not bring about the weakening and replacement of Social Security through privatization.
“President Bush's Social Security privatization was overwhelmingly rejected by the American people last year,” said U.S. Rep. Levin. "The lesson the President and his Republican allies in Congress should have learned was that it wasn’t about the politics of Social Security, it was about the substance. Americans understand and value Social Security. Workers know they can count on Social Security to be there for them and their families. And the more the American public learned about privatization, with its risky investments, benefit cuts, and drain on the Social Security trust fund, the more they opposed it."
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