Sign Up for the Politicker.com Wake Up Call

Maryland

RSS Feeds

Syndicate content Add to Netvibes Subscribe with Bloglines
Add to Technorati Favorites
Add to Google

Send suggestions to: editor@politicker.com

Maryland: Social Security

Thu, 08/14/2008 - 15:52

Democrats mark Social Security at 73, assail McCain

By Politicker Staff

[img_assist|nid=3159|title=Maryland Alliance of Retired Americans President Bruce Dunton outside the Social Security Administration HQ today|desc=Camapign Photo|link=none|align=middle|width=416|height=189]This afternoon, state Democrats gathered at the national headquarters of the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn for a birthday: the landmark New Deal program was signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 73 years ago today.

Yet much of the event was focused on someone born a year later: Republican presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

There have been 35 comments posted in response to this story.
Fri, 07/11/2008 - 08:36

Van Hollen attacks McCain over Social Security

By Politicker Staff

Eighth district Rep. and Democratic Congressional Campaigns Committee chairman Chris Van Hollen assailed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) yesterday for his remarks that the Social Security system is "an absolute disgrace."

On Wednesday, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate told a Portsmouth, Ohio audience that "we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today.

"And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace, and it's got to be fixed."

There have been 36 comments posted in response to this story.