To: Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York
Mayor Bloomberg Fix The Sandy Destruction
Stop your work to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Quit Fix the Debt and instead work to help NYC recover from Sandy. It's disgusting that you are playing politics when NY'ers are struggling to put their lives back together in Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens.
Why is this important?
While NY'ers are living without power, in mold, and without a plan for recovery, Mayor Bloomberg is spending his time plotting to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as the brand new Co-Chair of Fix the Debt, a gang of billionaires bent on destroying our earned benefits. A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies examines CEOs of public companies who have endorsed the “Fix the Debt” campaign. The report, “Pension Deficit Disorder: The Massive CEO Retirement Funds and Underfunded Worker Pensions at Firms Pushing Social Security Cuts,” finds that these CEOs, while calling for ordinary Americans to take cuts in Social Security and Medicare, are sitting on an average of $9 million each in retirement funds. Most are also running large deficits in their own employees’ pension funds.