Hi John,
My opponent Derek Kilmer has done it again. Flip-flopped on Social Security.
Kilmer signed onto a letter calling for cutting Social Security. That letter calls for “commission structures” to study the issue. Yet in an email about Social Security yesterday, he wrote:
“Congress doesn’t need new commissions.”
If you’re fed up with politicians who say one thing and do another, please chip in $7 now, so I can pay for phone banking and win this race.
In the email, Kilmer also shares this: “Some experts now warn Social Security could be insolvent by the end of this decade.”
What experts? That is absolutely not true. As Social Security Works says, “The 2020 report shows that Social Security is fully funded until 2035, 91 percent funded for the next 25 years, 85 percent funded over the next 50 years, and 82 percent funded over the next 75 years.”
Social Security is not running out of money. It is self-funding and has an army of highly trained actuaries whose sole job is to make sure Social Security has enough money in the future.
Social Security is perfectly capable of withstanding the pandemic with benefits intact. The real threat to Social Security is Donald Trump, Trump’s Republican lackeys, and Trump’s Democratic enablers like Derek Kilmer.
If you want to get rid of a Trump-enabling, Social Security flip-flopper, donate $7 now, because my quarterly fundraising deadline is in only 11 days. Donate now to help me win!
You know something’s wrong when your Democratic representative is with Trump on Social Security. (Not to mention all of Trump’s favorite policies that Kilmer has voted for — if you’d like an email on that, please respond and I’ll send one.)
Kilmer says he supports the Social Security 2100 Act, but how are we supposed to trust him at this point?
Enough is enough. Donate now to elect someone to WA’s 6th District who will NEVER flip-flop on Social Security and who will always fight to protect and expand it. My deadline is only 11 days away:
https://rebeccaforwa.com/deadline
-Rebecca Parson
Democrat for Congress, WA-06
Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Kitsap County & the Olympic Peninsula
Vote By Mail July 17-August 4, 2020
P.S. I got a couple questions about this, so I wanted to address it:
Congress did not “borrow” money from Social Security years ago that it never paid back. The Social Security SURPLUS was used to invest in government bonds that earn interest on the surplus… creating more surplus.
In 1990, the Social Security Trust Fund was moved from being part of the federal budget to being its own budget. This does not mean the money disappeared. It’s just being recorded in a different accounting book now.
The Social Security Administration has a page on its website correcting this myth. Republicans and Republican-lite Democrats repeat myths like this to make us scared. They think if we’re scared that we’ll agree to their austerity cuts.
Nope.
Donate $7 here so we can fight back against the myths and protect and expand Social Security now and for generations to come!
