January 2013 Vol.21 No.1 OSARC newsletter

Unpacking the Affordable In This Issue Care Act For Seniors

n March 2010, after much debate, Congress passed, and President Obama 2 - COMRO Report Isigned, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the administration’s health insurance reform. Ironically, the bill utilized the private market approach that former - Uncle OSARC Needs You Massachusetts governor and later presidential candidate Mitt Romney used in developing a similar program for his own state. Like ACA, the 3 - OSARC Calendar Massachusetts plan mandated the purchase of insurance by individuals, as well as a controlling - NYCARA’s Next Meeting role for private health insurers. ACA was shep- herded by a former insurance industry lobbyist, 4 - OSARC’s Got Talent Liz Fowler, chief health care advisor to Montana Senator Max Baucus, whose role proved decisive. - Junking Junk Mail President Obama signs the Baucus effectively excluded all progressive alter- Affordable Care Act in 2010. natives from committee discussion. Doctors advocating expanded “Medicare for All” were not only barred from the hearings, 5 - Help With Sandy Relief they were arrested when they protested. After a failed Supreme Court challenge, - Cuomo Stiffs Retirees the right attempted to stigmatize the law as socialist and pejoratively labeled it “Obamacare.” Unable to convince the corporate media to drop the label, the administration began using the term in a positive vein. As we enter 2013, a number 6 - Jumping Off The “Cliff?” of features have already gone into effect, including permitting children to remain - Right To Work For Less on their parents’ health insurance until age 26 and requiring insurers to spend at least 80% of premiums on patient care. But, a whole host of changes are yet to be - Be Picky In Picking A PIN implemented. What will the impact of ACA ultimately be, especially on older Americans on Medicare? That’s the question that Chris Widelo, Associate State Director of 7 - Which Side Are YOU On? AARP New York, will attempt to answer for us. Join us for what promises to be a fascinating presentation, covering what’s changing and when, Medicare Part D plans and Medicare Advantage plans. And, thanks to Rep. Eliot Engel and his staffer Heidi Ross who arranged for Mr. Widelo to address OSARC. È È È È È È È

OSARC Your 2013 OSARC Dues Are Due rd Happy New Year! With this month’s Newsletter you will find a 2013 dues pay- 220 East 23 Street ment form. Dues remain $18/year. Please mail a check/money order payable to Suite 707 “OSARC,” along with the dues form, back to the union in the envelope provided. New York NY 10010 (212) 686-1229 Volunteers will be working to process your dues. If you do not pay by the end of (212) 686-1231 Fax January, you will receive a reminder with your February Newsletter. Those who (212) 330-8833 Hotline do not pay by the end of February will not receive the March Newsletter. www.osaunion.org Next Organization of Staff Analysts’ Retirees Club Meeting

Wednesday • January 9, 2013 • 12:30pm – 2:30pm

What Does Obamacare Hold For Seniors?

Guest Speaker: Chris Widelo, Associate State Director, AARP NY

OSA Union Office, 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 707, NYC (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues) OSARC Officers 2011-2012 COMRO Report Chairs...... Colleen Cox, Mark Lewis The Council of Municipal Retiree Organizations Vice-Chairs...... Fred Lieber, Edlynn Pile (COMRO) brings together OSARC and other city retiree groups for a meeting on the second Wednesday of the month Treasurers...... Christine Das, Saul Weber from October to June. This report covers the December Secretary...... Joyce Cleveland COMRO meeting as reported by OSARC rep Mark Lewis. COMRO Representatives...... Mark Lewis, Colleen Cox Mark reported that five Democratic New York State É É É É Senators broke away from the regular Democratic Caucus to Newsletter Editor/Photos...... Rob Spencer form a power sharing arrangement with the Republicans. Contributing Reporter/Writer.....Joyce Cleveland Senator Jeff Klein (D) and Senator Dean Skelos (R) will be alternating as Senate majority leader. Although the five Democrats, including former DC37 Local 371 officer Diane Savino, designated themselves as the “Independent We’ll Be Seeing You In All The Old Familiar Places Democratic Caucus,” the move disenfranchises the regular Sixty-three (63) OSARC members and friends attended the Democratic senators who now become a minority in the December OSARC meeting: Senate. This threatens progressive legislation. Also, it Adrianne Alpert, Hakimah disenfranchises all New Yorkers who, in voting for al-Zahra, Gilberte Ambroise, Democrats, in effect voted for Democratic majority rule. Nancy Ambruster, Jean Mark noted that the City pension funds are fully funded Anmuth, Gertrud Bacon, Iris and in great shape. At the COMRO meeting, Warren Lewis Bailey, Judy Balos, Renee Bash, had presented an analysis he had compiled along with Larry Barry Bealick and guest, Renee Kaplan and Stu Eber of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Boyce, Michella Brown, Joan Report Of The Comptroller on the five city pension funds for Capel, Joyce Cleveland, Colleen 2012. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012 (FY ’12), Cox, Christine Das, Gloria New York City’s five public pension funds paid $11.8 billion D’Jaha, Bill Douglas, Delois in benefits to 286,703 retirees and beneficiaries, an increase Evans, Isabel Goldstein, Tom of $0.6 billion over the amount paid in FY ’11. Gorse, Sally Graudons, Al The value of the funds’ net assets increased from $111 Gundersheimer, Berek Haus, billion for FY’11 to $111.3 billion in FY ’12, an increase of Mary Hillman, Emma Jordan, $.03billion or .3 %. This compares to the increase in assets Elizabeth Karetzky, Tony Lee, from $90 billion in FY’10 to $111 billion in FY’11 Kaye Lee, Rosanne Levitt, Mark (+23.3%). Lewis, Fred Lieber, Winnifred Mayo-Pena, John The revenues of all five pension funds decreased Mazarella, Dan Morgan, Eileen Pentel, Carl Prisco, Jr., significantly in FY’12, due mainly to a decrease in Fred Ranzoni, Edna Riley, Francisco Rios, Nilsa Mangual investment income. Rios, Nancy Russell, Verneice Ruttledge, Marc Sawyer, Active contributing members in the five funds totaled John Scrofani, Lorraine Rose Scrofani, Waguih 359,143 for FY’12, down 6,487 active members from the Sabongui, Michael Schady, Joe Sperling, Brenda Stoute, 365,630 in FY ’11. Sallie Stroman, Steve Suffet, Marilyn Suffet, Edward COMRO was also unanimous in the belief that efforts to Tennant, Hattie Thomas, Jay Warshofsky, Florence address the “fiscal cliff” reflect lower taxes for the middle Wagener, Herb Wasserman, Saul Weber, Dolores Wilson, Robert Wilson, Leoila Zeigler If you were at the meeting, but your name does not appear above, it means we could not read your handwriting on the sign-in sheet. We DO ask folks to PRINT their names, but OSARC members like to interpret that instruction creatively. So, next time, please print your name carefully. We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting. And, if you have some time to give, volunteer to be a member of a committee – food, mailing, social action, travel, etc.

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Membership Committee Needs You It’s dues processing time at OSARC and membership committee chair Fred Ranzoni needs a team of happy skilled OSARCers to join him in the union office to enter data into the computer and fill out bank deposit slips. If you can help, Food Committee Chair Mary Hillman offers OSARCer Ed Tennant assistance as other OSARCers pile their plates please call Fred at 718-965-3129 to discuss it further. with the December meeting’s festive food offerings.

OSARC Newsletter • January 2013 • Page 2 OSARC Calendar – Upcoming Meetings & Events Mark your calendars for the following OSARC meetings. (As always, the topic of a given meeting is subject to possible change, should a speaker become unavailable.)

1/9/13: Impact of the Affordable Care Act 2/13/13: Income Taxes for Retirees 3/13/13: TBA 4/10/13: Annual OSARC Trip - Destination TBA 5/8/13: TBA 6/12/13: Gala June Luncheon, Location TBA class, as well as preserving Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. OSARC members seeking to protect Social Isabel Goldstein, Rosanne Levitt, Renee Bash, Hattie Security and Medicare should share their concerns with their Thomas, Eileen Pentel and Fred Lieber are joined by representatives by calling (888) 497-9539. Bill Douglas on guitar at the December meeting. Finally, Mario Cilento, president of the New York State Labor-supported candidates in marginal races won about AFL-CIO, was COMRO’s guest speaker. Cilento began 80% of those races. In this year’s election 1,000,000 pieces working for the state AFL-CIO at the age of 23 and twenty of literature were mailed. 500,000 work site flyers were years later was elected president of the body. handed out, 175 labor walks were conducted and labor had 25,000 volunteers on Election Day. The State federation is trying to get people involved statewide, not just in New York City and Albany, with a focus on the area labor federations. The state federation set up town hall meetings in the eight heavily contested congressional races and labor- supported candidates won seven of the eight. The state federation met with Senator Schumer and the New York congressional delegation as part of a coordinated effort with New Jersey and Connecticut labor organizations to seek relief funding after Hurricane Sandy. In New York, a primary focus will be on ensuring unemployment insurance and workers compensation are there for those who need it. Cilento said that Governor Cuomo has promised he will not change the Triborough Amendment that prohibits an employer from unilaterally altering mandatory subjects of negotiation while a successor OSARCer Rosanne Levitt and guest Trudy Bacon played agreement is being negotiated. He also noted that outside early music on the recorder at the December meeting. financial control boards can be used to break contracts. Cilento expressed thanks for the role of retirees in the Cilento promised that the Independent Democratic labor movement, noting that this contribution is often Conference led by Jeff Klein will be watched carefully to overlooked. He observed that the adversaries of working make sure they cast progressive votes on critical issues. people are pooling their resources to defeat us in the Otherwise, labor may consider supporting opponents in legislative and contractual arenas. He said one of labor’s Democratic primaries in 2014. strengths is that labor can, and the right can’t, get 20,000 In closing, he noted that 25% of the New York state people out in the street on Election Day doing electoral work. workforce is unionized. It is labor’s obligation to pull all While labor does many things well, we will have to do them working people and community groups together. There is a even better going forward. need to find agreement on issues of common interest. A primary focus is on education and mobilization campaigns. There are over 300 labor organizations in New • • • • • York State organized into area labor federations. These groups focus on their local elected officials in every NYCARA’s Next Meeting assembly and state senate district in the state. The The next meeting of the New York City Alliance for mobilization for the next state legislative session will take Retired Americans, the AFL-CIO linked senior lobby is place in December and January. January 23, 2013 at 10 AM at the United Federation of Cilento observed that public opinion of unions is at an Teachers, 52 Broadway, on the 19th Floor. all-time low. Since the labor movement is about serving • • • • • people, the goal must be to get the general public to understand we work for the general welfare.

OSARC Newsletter • January 2013 • Page 3 cultural reference points and words in the traditional tale. OSARC’s Got Talent – and it Eileen Pentel produced a Hanukkah version, Joan Capel was on display in December recited a version that raised questions about whether we were by Joyce Cleveland losing the true Christmas spirit and Ed Tennant read the OSARC has designated Poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” It was fascinating to hear its December luncheon the names of the reindeer “Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and meeting as its annual Vixen,” in the various languages. “talent show” and holiday There was a medley of songs played on the recorder (a party for the past five baroque wind instrument) by Rosanne Leavitt and Trudy years. This year, as in Bacon. There were ballads drawn from Shakespeare, previous years, the meet- including “A Lover and his Lass” from “As You Like It” and ing room was decorated “O Mistress Mine”' from “Twelfth Night.” with holiday trimmings, Rosanne and Trudy, like Eileen are members of the Folk kindly arranged by the Music Society of New York. For information on their winter union’s staff. The tinsel and events, visit their website at www. folkmusicny.org or call garlands and signs wish- 212-957-8386. ing a Merry Christmas and The next sing-along was led by Steve Suffet and Isabel HappyHannukah served as Goldstein. Steve, who was a teacher and administrator who a gala backdrop to the is a retired member of the Council of Supervisors and holiday feast. Administrators, is also an active member of the American On the menu was baked ziti, eggplant parmigiana, roast Federation of Musicians Local 1000 which serves traveling chicken, and lasagna, along with a tossed green salad. There musicians who tour on was a holiday cake for dessert. For added zest there was red the folk, bluegrass and and white wine. We were forced to add an additional table acoustic music circuit. for overflow guests. Members enjoyed the meal – there With his guitar, Steve were no leftovers and no complaints. and Isabel led us in a OSARC Co-Chairs Marked Lewis and Colleen Cox sing-along of "I Got opened the meeting and welcomed guests. While there were My Union." no new members attending their first OSARC meeting, Cox Finally, led by suggested those attending introduce themselves to Eileen Pentel, Isabel tablemates seated next to us or facing us across the table, in Goldstein, Hattie a sort of informal “meet and greet.” So, we did. It was great Thomas, Roseanne fun discovering that one didn't always know names even Leavitt, and Trudy when we knew the faces. Bacon, the whole Guest Steve Suffet But, the December OSARC meeting is more than just a community of us sang leads OSARCers in song. chance to eat well, it’s a chance to from the holiday song have some fun. Our annual “talent book. Selections included “Joy to the World,” “Little show” began with greetings from Drummer Boy,” “The First Noel,” “Rock of Ages” and Mistress of Ceremonies Eileen others. Pentel. Eileen spends some of her Thanks are due to the Food/Hospitality Committee free time in retirement as an officer members who served, including chair Mary Hillman, Sallie of the New York Folk Music Stroman, Delois Evans, Iris Bailey, and Michella Brown. Society, which produces concerts And special thanks go to OSA staffer Carol Moten who made periodically in the OSA office and catering arrangements and assisted with serving – and to the in locations around the City. many OSA staffers who decorated the meeting room. Former OSA Vice-Chair Bill Douglas provided music before • • • • • and during the meal, playing a No More Junk Mail? range of tunes on electric guitar. Sick of unsolicited catalogs, advertisements and other He closed his presentation of print items? Want to help create a greener New York? popular standards with “Have An electric Bill Douglas Follow the Department of Sanitation’s mantra - reduce, reuse entertains OSARCers. Yourself a Merry Christmas” and and recycle. Go to their website at www.nyc.gov/ organized an impromptu nycwasteless for a range of tips on how to stop unwanted sing-a-long of “Hava Nagilah,” joined by Fred Lieber, mail, remove your name from credit offers, reduce the Rosanne Levitt, Eileen Pentel and Hattie Thomas. number of bills and statements you are sent by mail, identify The performances featured four (count ‘em four) organizations that will take your unwanted belongings as different versions of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”/”A donations, as well as an overview of what must and can be Visit from St. Nicholas.” recycled in New York City. Renee Bash did a version that interspersed Spanish • • • • •

OSARC Newsletter • January 2013 • Page 4 Governor Cuomo Stiffs OTB Retirees, Again New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has once again OSARC Helps With “Sandy” Relief; You Can Too demonstrated a general lack of concern with the well-being The union’s Director of Media Services Rob Spencer and health of one group of public workers. presented a proposal at the December OSARC meeting Readers of this Newsletter will that OSARC donate toward Hurricane Sandy relief. He be familiar with the tragic saga of outlined the work of “Occupy Sandy,” a coordinated relief the closing of the Off Track Betting effort to distribute resources and volunteers to assist Corporation in 2010 and the firing of neighborhoods like the Rockaways, Staten Island and its entire staff. We have also Coney Island, which were especially hard hit. The effort, repeatedly covered the withdrawal of an outgrowth of the Occupy Wall Street movement, has retiree health benefits from those received a great deal of positive press and, as of early OTB employees who were already in December, had raised more than $840,000 for New York retirement at the time of OTB’s relief and more than $230,000 for NJ relief. collapse. Unlike a charity, Occupy Sandy sees itself as a mutual In mid-December, for the second aid organization establishing hubs in the affected time, Cuomo vetoed a bill passed by neighborhoods from which volunteers and donated both houses of the state legislature supplies can be distributed to those affected. They also set that would have restored these up distribution centers in collaboration with several Brooklyn churches. And, they worked with Amazon.com promised health benefits to OTB Sally Graudons retirees. As our readers will recall, to create “wedding registries” to enable individuals to two approaches were taken after the collapse of OTB - donate needed goods directly, such as respirator masks legislation and court action. On the legal side, the state courts and tools. You can read more about the work of Occupy ruled that, once OTB stopped functioning and providing Sandy at http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy. funds for health care to the city, there was no requirement for By acclamation, OSARCers at the December meeting the state or city to pick up the retiree health obligations of agreed to donate $500 to “Occupy Sandy” and an OTB, which was a quasi public corporation and not a state or additional collection brought in another $151. OSARC city agency. On the legislative side, bills to restore the will be sending the total of $651 to Occupy Sandy shortly. benefits have now passed the State Senate and Assembly If you’d like to add to this amount, please send a twice, most recently this past June. Both times, the bills have SEPARATE check or money order payable to “Occupy been vetoed by the governor. Sandy/AFGJ” with “Occupy Sandy” in the memo. You According to the civil service newspaper, The Chief, in can mail it in the return envelope, along with your dues. vetoing the legislation, the governor claimed that while We’ll forward your donation, along with OSARC’s, to restoring health coverage for the retirees was a “worthy Occupy Sandy. Donations are tax-deductible. goal,” the bill “does not identify a source of funds to finance this proposal and fails to take into account the state’s financial plan.” So, You Think You Know Everything About New York Cuomo suggested legislators The Gotham Center for NY History thinks otherwise and provide the funding in next year’s has a regular series of free forums that probably will prove it budget, which goes into effect on to you. The forums are held at the st CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth April 1 . Of course, such funding th was to be inserted in the current Ave at 34 Street starting at 6:30pm. year’s budget, but was removed at For info, visit www.gothamcenter.org the governor’s request, for use or call 212-817-8460. The upcoming elsewhere. schedule includes “Aspects of the The cynicism of the latest African American Experience in move is remarkable. Every one of NYC,” on Wed., February 6, 2013; these OTB retirees signed on for a “Grand Central: How a Train Station career with the explicit promise of Transformed America,” on Thurs., a pension and healthcare in retire- February 28; “More Powerful Than ment. Now that they have reached Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Pro- gressives and New York’s Year of retirement, after years of public Elizabeth Karetzky service, they must scramble to Anarchy,” on Wed., March 6; “Russ Adrianne Alpert purchase healthcare coverage for themselves and their and Daughters: Reflections and Reci- families in the marketplace, often at extreme cost. There are pes from the House Herring Built,” on Wed., March 20; “L a few retired OSA members among those affected. We can is for Lion–An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir,” on only hope that in the negotiations over next year’s budtget Wed., April 3; “80 Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s that the legislature and the governor can come to some History Making Race Around the World,” on Wed., April 17; agreement to resolve this disgraceful impasse. And we hope and “NYC Cartmen 1667-1850,” on Thurs., May 9. The the governor will actually support whatever deal emerges. February 28 and March 20 programs require registration.

OSARC Newsletter • January 2013 • Page 5 Think Twice About That Pin Number “Cliff” Hanger – Talks Go Down To Wire Before Deal A fascinating article in Yahoo! Finance outlined just how easy it would be for a criminal to access the bank account of Dems Take Safety Net Cuts Off-the-Table (For Now) someone who lost their ATM card. A data scientist with a President Obama, in a worrisome development, an- Seattle firm analyzed passwords from prior security breaches nounced in mid-December that he was open to changes in the and looked at those which were four digits long. According way Social Security cost of living adjustments are calculated. to the article, there are 10,000 possible combinations that Labor and progressive groups grew increasingly concerned digits 0-9 can be arranged in to form a four digit PIN code. that the Democrats, like the The data scientist looked at which Republicans, were willing to consider were the least and which were the precedent-setting cuts in the social most predictable. Among his findings, safety net. (See “Which Side Are You approximately 11% of the 4 digit On?” elsewhere in this issue.) passwords he analyzed were “1234" As we explored in last month’s and another 6% were “1111," with Newsletter, adopting the so-called 2% choosing “0000.” According to “Chained CPI” to calculate Social the article, the data scientist found Security COLAs–and COLAs for a that nearly 27% of all passwords range of other benefits–would could be achieved by trying 20 represent a substantial cut in those benefits over time. combinations of 4 digit numbers. th What did these easy to crack PINs On December 30 , the president have in common–repetitive number- again signaled his willingness to Gilberte Ambroise ing or patterns such as ”6969" or include the Chained CPI in a broader Sybil DeVeaux “1010" or “1122." Or famous dates deficit-reduction deal. Interviewed on “Meet the Press,” he like “1776" or “1492" or birth years, like “19xx.” said: “One of the proposals we made was something called They also looked at the least common PIN combinations Chained CPI, which sounds real technical but basically and found “9629,” “8093,” and “8068" pulled up the tail end. makes an adjustment in terms of how inflation is calculated In an amusing revelation, it turns out that the fourth most on Social Security. Highly unpopular among Democrats; not popular 7 digit password is 8675309. If that sequence is something supported by AARP. But in pursuit of familiar, try singing it. It’s the phone number made famous strengthening Social Security for the long-term I'm willing to in “867-5309/Jenny” a song written by Alex Call and Jim make those decisions.” Just how a cut in already modest Keller, performed by Tommy Tutone in 1982. Social Security benefits strengthens the program remains to be explained. • • • • • The December dance of the deficit hawks preoccupied the corporate media and Beltway pundits. In the games- Michigan Joins “Right To Work” For Less States manship that passes for serving the public’s interest these Acting speedily during a lame-duck session in Decem- days, Republican House Speaker John Boehner found ber, state legislators turned Michigan into the 24th “Right to himself unable to agree to any deal that would protect 98% Work” state. Right to Work laws make union participation of Americans from tax rate increases unless the highest and fee paying optional as opposed to mandatory. Republican earning 2% also kept Bush-era rates. As a result, negotiations Governor Rick Snyder immediately signed the bill, even between Boehner and the President broke down and the focus though he had testified in a hearing this year that “right to of action shifted to the Senate. work” was a divisive issue and not something he Discussions there were reported to contemplated for Michigan in 2012. Passage of these laws is be “making progress” until Senate part of an orchestrated national campaign by a well-healed Republican Minority Leader Mitch and well-coordinated group of right wing anti- union McConnell proposed an offer which ideologues led by the Koch Brothers, corporations, and a would have inserted the “Chained network of think tanks and policy shops funded by those CPI” into the mix, demonstrating how interests, especially the American Legislative Exchange seriously the right wishes to Council (ALEC), a right-wing “bill mill." Besides the right compromise the safety net. to work bills, “model” bills ALEC pushed in Michigan Senate Majority Leader Harry included a bill allowing emergency managers to be appointed Reid (D-Nev) had announced his talks to oversee local municipal finances. A prior emergency with McConnell had reached an manager bill had just been overturned at the polls by popular impasse Sunday. According to media reports, the Democrats had agreed to referendum in November. (So much for respect for the Jean Anmuth popular will.) Right to Work laws actually create a right to compromise on several points, work for less, allowing employers to pay less, provide fewer including raising the threshold for restoring pre-Bush tax sick days and skimp on safety measures. The Economic rates from the $250,000 President Obama had campaigned on Policy Institute found that the average worker in “right to and making estate tax adjustments that moved the overall work” states makes $1,500 less per year. deal toward the Republican position.

OSARC Newsletter • January 2013 • Page 6 Then the Dems sent in VP Joe Biden who sealed a deal Democrats would get: it’s temporary; everything expires.... with McConnell on Sunday which focused on tax rates and Here’s what’s important about what Republicans would get: a few other issues. Cuts in the safety net were not part of the it’s permanent. The tax rates won’t expire. That means mix. But those who would celebrate the Democrats apparent Democrats are offering a huge gift to Republicans and showing of spine in declaring that the social safety net would getting almost nothing in return because on Jan. 1, if no deal not be part of the agreement may be a wee bit premature. is struck, Democrats will get even more revenue than they’re Here is Reid’s Sunday statement: asking for without conceding a thing. And if, as polls “We’re not going to have any Social suggest, voters would blame Republicans for going over the Security cuts at this stage, that just cliff, Democrats are also offering to save Republicans from doesn’t seem appropriate.” (emphasis their worst impulses — which, at least for the time being, added) Reid went on to say “We’re since they haven’t yet agreed, is to reject this deal. I’m open to discussion about entitlement amazed liberals aren’t furious.” reforms but we’re going to have to Everyone should read the article below and act to contact take it in a different direction.” all of your federal elected officials to let them know you We can only hope what he had in expect no cuts in the safety net during the next round of debt mind as a “different direction” are talks. Stay tuned for more in the next issue. solutions like removing the cap from • • • • • earnings subject to FICA taxes. Drop the cap (now at $113,000) and Social Which Side Are YOU On? Security’s long-range funding shortfall Normally, we don’t simply reprint articles that appear is resolved and the program becomes Leoila Zeigler elsewhere, but we felt the following by Richard Eskow of the fully funded for the entire 75 year Campaign for America’s Future makes important points projection period required of the Social Security Trustees. about why you should not sit back as both parties appear And there are “directions” for Medicare other than raising ready to consider cuts to the social safety net. We have the eligibility age. Allowing Medicare to negotiate prices for covered this subject in issue drugs under Part D would be but one example. after issue of this News- Biden and McConnell’s “deal” was criticized on Monday letter. And, we’ve covered by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka for raising taxes only the negotiations over the on incomes above $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for “fiscal cliff” in the prior couples rather than $250,000, while pushing talks on the debt article. Even if a deal is ceiling two months down the road. Trumka said, “we cannot struck now that does not set the stage for further destabilizing hostage taking from include cuts to the safety Republicans in the form of another debt ceiling crisis and net, it is clear that such cuts another sequester crisis.” may be in play at a later Ultimately the deal passed both houses by the end of date. So now, read Mr. New Year’s Day and Trumka softened his criticism, saying Eskow’s post (written be- OSARC Co-Chairs Colleen Cox the deal “is a breakthrough in beginning to restore tax fore the tax rate deal was and Mark Lewis fairness and achieves some key goals of working completed on January 1) and then take action. Call your families...but lawmakers should have listened even better.” st Senators and Representative and the President and tell them A December 31 Bloomberg News article points out just you oppose the Chained CPI and any other cuts to Social how much the Democrats compromised in the narrower offer Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Strengthen Social Security on the table. Author Joshua Green writes, “Democrats would has a call-in page to help you make phone calls at http:// get an extension of unemployment benefits for 2.1 million strengthensocialsecurity.org/publicstatementcallpage. Or call people; they’d patch the alternative minimum tax...to protect your members of Congress at 888-659-9401, the president at the middle class from sharp tax hikes; and they’d implement 202-456-1111 and sign the petition at www.aflcio.org/Get- a “doc fix” to ensure that Medicare reimbursement rates to Involved/Protect-Our-Future. doctors don’t fall precipitously and limit patients’ access to medical care. Republicans would get to preserve Ask a Democrat: On Social Security, Which Side Are You On? Bush-era income tax rates for (those) by Richard Eskow making up to $400,000 (rather than the This is a moment of moral clarity. Right now there are only two sides in the Social Security debate: the side that says it’s $250,000 limit Democrats prefer). acceptable to cut benefits – in a way that raises taxes for all They’d also get a lower tax rate and a income except the highest – and the side that says it isn’t. much higher threshold for inheritance It’s time to ask our leaders – and ourselves – a simple taxes...And, significantly, Republicans question: Which side are you on? would hold onto their greatest point of Nancy Pelosi says she can convince most Congressional leverage in upcoming negotiations over Democrats to “stick with the President” as he pursues his entitlement cuts, because the deal gratuitous and callous plan to cut Social Security benefits as part wouldn’t raise the debt limit. Here’s of a deficit deal – even though Social Security does not contribute what’s important about everything Hakimah al-Zahra to the deficit. Excuse me: Stick with the President? What about

OSARC Newsletter • January 2013 • Page 7 sticking with our seniors and our veterans? What about sticking “extreme”? Don’t tell us we’re close-minded, either: Some of us with our disabled fellow Americans? What about sticking with know the numbers better than you do, but you won’t talk to us. the more than 4,000 children on Social Security who lost a parent You’d rather give credibility to the stealth corporate lobbyists at in the Iraq War? Fix the Debt and the Committee For a Responsible Federal If you want to “stick with” Ameri- Budget. cans on Social Security, it’s time to call We’re very open-minded. We’re open to lifting the payroll everybody who represents you in Wash- tax cap. We’re open to fighting unemployment so that more ington–your Representative, your Senator, people can pay into Social Security’s trust fund. We’re open to your President–and tell them that they’ll increasing its benefits as a stimulus measure – and because it’s lose your support if they do this deal. the right thing to do. We’re open to a public exchange of ideas on It’s time for an end to the Orwellian the subject. doublespeak. Cutting benefits won’t Don’t try to cut benefits behind closed doors and then tell us “strengthen” Social Security, as Nancy to be “open-minded.” Pelosi claims. Cuts of 6.5% for a 75 year It’s true that waffling Democrats have offered some fine old and 9.2% for a 95 year old aren’t so rhetoric. They’ve always got good rhetoric. In fact, they’ve got small that “folks won’t even notice ‘em,” rhetoric to burn. But somebody else always winds up feeling the as President Obama claimed. They’re not heat. Chrissie Das a “technical” adjustment, as his press The President even offered up a new rhetorical flourish – the secretary argued, nor do “most economists “superlative CPI” – he says will help those who are most deeply believe … this about getting a proper measure of inflation.” in need. But he offered no details, and the devil’s in the details. The smart economists know that even today’s cost of living A lot of seniors on Social Security are already impoverished, formula isn’t enough. It undercounts the things older and disabled according to the research. And that study was done before the people use the most, like health care and public transportation. economy was battered in 2008 – by many of the same Wall Street Some other people know the formula’s inadequate, too: seniors. CEOs pushing this deal. It’s a pipe dream. They live with the costs every day. Besides, why fund an antipoverty program with other So let’s stop all the double-talk and get down to the real seniors’ and disabled people’s benefits, when the wealthy still question at hand: Which side are you on? won’t pay their fair share under your “compromise” to avoid the It’s time to put an end to weasel words and waffling “fiscal cliff”? As far as the “cliff” goes, Van Halen said it best: language, too. You know the kind I mean: “We won’t slash Go ahead and jump. benefits.” “No major cuts.” And if politicians come around at election time after voting The Huffington Post reports that Democrats voiced their for this deal, a lot of people will tell them the same thing I just objections to the President’s chained CPI offer. But when asked, said: Jump off a cliff. they “did not rule out voting for a deal” which included it. Even if your only loyalty is to Team Blue – if Democratic That’s not good enough. victories are all you care about – you still need to make those It’s not good enough to say the “chained CPI” “is a deal calls. Democrats’ huge polling lead on Social Security helped breaker, or close to a deal breaker.” It’s not good enough to say them win the House in 2006. Then that lead fell by 21 points and ”I very much don’t like it” but “I’d vote on a whole package.” Or Republicans won the House back – helped in large part by their that “My strong preference is that it not be included.” Or that it’s “Seniors’ Bill of Rights,” a transparent con only made plausible “likely going to be a tough vote for a lot of us.” That’s not good by muddled Democratic doublespeak. enough. It’s only been a few weeks since the party’s renewed Mike Lux wrote an informative piece credibility on this issue helped it achieve a major victory. Now explaining why so many Democrats are it’s about to trade it away–again. And this time it lose that likely to fall in line anyway unless we advantage forever. We need to act–now. We need to tell them pressure them. You can probably guess don’t just say the right thing. Do the right thing. Put up or shut the reasons: Access. Influence. Not up. alienating the top guy. I’m not dismissing There are real leaders who can show them how it’s done. their concerns. I get it. They’re in a tough Rep. Keith Ellison: “I will not vote for something that includes position. chained CPI.” Rep. Raul Grijalva: Chained CPI is “a Beltway fig Know who’s really in a tough leaf that I will never support.” Rep. Charlie Rangel: “Any deal position? Elderly widows trying to get by that cuts Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits is on $850 a month. If Obama’s deal goes unacceptable and I will oppose it.” That’s how it’s done. through that figure will fall to around This is no time for us to waffle, either. Did you vote for $770 a month by the time they’re 95. Barack Obama, or for a Democratic Senator or Representative? Carl Prisco Jr Know who else is in a tough I did. I feel a personal responsibility to do everything I can to stop position? Kids who lost a Mom or Dad in them from doing this. Iraq. Disabled Americans. And the millions of struggling families It’s time to make those phone calls and send those emails. who’ll see their taxes go up as the “chained CPI” bounces them Because Lux is right about something else: Without mass into higher tax brackets. resistance these Social Security cuts are a done deal. And we’ll It’s “going to be a tough vote”? Tough. You should’ve have to face the fact that we didn’t do enough to stop it. thought of that before you decided to run for office, because Tell the President you’re against the chained CPI. Tell your tough comes with the territory. Senators and your Representative to declare their unequivocal And please don’t tell those of us who oppose this deal that opposition to it like Grijalva and Ellison and the others did, and we’re too “extreme” or too “left.” Three-quarters of all to vote accordingly. Republicans and Tea Party members agree with us, so who’s And ask them that simple question: Which side are you on?

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