Barbara Mikulsi's Internet Social Security Calculator

[AuntiBush]

If you get a moment, had over to Senator Barbara Mikulski's senatorial web site. She has a terrific, user-friendly calculator where one can put in the amount of money earned and with the click of a button you'll see what Bush & the Republicans dismantling will do to your money - with a comparison of what it would be if it stayed as it is.

Link: http://mikulski.senate.gov/calc/index.html

P.S. This morning on C-Span in the House & Senate, our Democrats are stifled, befuddled that sometime just prior (about 9:30 am EST), the Republicans' in both the House and Senate, are ready to force another 2 trillion dollar bill which INCLUDES getting rid of Medicare and Social Security along w/many other important issues that harm our military, elderly, middle-class, poor, disabled, you name it.

What really has our Democrats upset, is they were handed this HUGE bill less then an hour before the Republicans are calling for a vote. Republicans say it will be voted on today, possible as I'm writing this.

Each Democrat from TX, CA, NY and back got up given only 2-3 minutes to speak saying none of them have a chance to read this, having been blocked and ignored for over a month in the Republican's closed-door planning sessions... nor is less then 1 hour enough time to even go over all of this. But the Republican side basically said, "too bad - we're the Majority," and "that's the way it is."

I urge everyone to write to the Congressmen and women on all sides of the political aisles and insist this does not happen.

Have no link to this occurrence this morning but it was on C-Span.