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Sign Our Pledge to Protect Social Security Sixty years ago today one of our greatest President’s Franklin Roosevelt passed away. During his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt held a series of thirty radio talks known as “fireside chats” explaining his policies and programs to the American people. First delivered on March 12, 1933, the chats covered a range of subjects from wartime policies to the development of programs like Social Security. These chats created a new sense of transparency and communication between the American people and their government. In honor of Franklin Roosevelt, today I held my own “fireside chat” where I listened to the concerns of our two participants about the Bush Social Security privatization plan and shared my views on the most successful social program in history. Just as radio was the new technology of Roosevelt’s today I am using the Internet to deliver this fireside chat. Thank you, Harry Reid PARTICIPANT PROFILES: Susie Thomas Susie represents our ideal retirement security world – she gets Social Security’s guaranteed benefit, but adds on to that with a 401k retirement account. She also is living proof that privatization is a huge gamble, having lost $25,000 in the stock market downturn during the 1990’s. John Richmond John is a disability advocate/instructor/teacher. He knows that privatization is a gamble because he put aside $750 per month as a teacher and lost nearly half of it in the 1990 stock market bubble burst.
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