Billionaires planning town hall astroturfing to demand cuts to Social Security! [View all]
I hope these people get caught at town halls and called out for doing what they're doing.
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The so-called ”Campaign To Fix The Debt” is being run by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and is designed to pressure Congress to enact an austerity plan that cuts Social Security and guts investments in Main Street America while lowering corporate taxes.
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If you sign up as a volunteer for the group, you’ll be e-mailed a “toolkit” that you’re supposed to use to engage in pro-austerity activism on behalf of the billionaires who run the group.
One of the instructions in the tool kit is to “bird dog” campaign events and town halls that feature Members of Congress. Here’s the sample questions that the campaign is asking people to dog lawmakers with. Notice that they are designed to pressure legislators to agree to cuts to Social Security and enact other devastating spending cuts:
Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/uncovered-billionaires-planning-astroturf-movement-to-pressure-congress-at-town-halls-to-cut-social-security/
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