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Perry and the HPV Vaccine: Selling Women's Health (and Everything
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t r u t h o u t | 09.15
Perry and the HPV Vaccine: Selling Women's Health (and Everything Else) to the Highest Bidder
http://www.truth-out.org/perry-and-hpv-vaccine-selling-womens-health-and-everything-else-highest-bidder/1316112214
Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check: "In 2007, Governor Rick Perry shocked both public health officials and his conservative base when he signed an executive order mandating that female students in Texas be vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) before entering the sixth grade. The order referred to Gardasil, a vaccine that had been approved by the FDA only a few months earlier after having been found to prevent infection with four strains of HPV, including two strains that account for 70 percent of cervical cancer and two that account for 90 percent of genital warts. The FDA approved the three-shot regimen for young women ages nine to 26 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that this become part of the routine vaccinations of girls at ages 11 or 12 because 'it is important for girls to get HPV vaccine before their first sexual contact - because they won't have been exposed to human papillomavirus.'"
US Military Defoliants on Okinawa: Agent Orange
http://www.truth-out.org/us-military-defoliants-okinawa-agent-orange/1315921304
Jon Mitchell, The Asia-Pacific Journal: "On August 19th, 2011, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement in response to recent media coverage about the US military's use and storage of defoliants (including Agent Orange) on Okinawa during the Vietnam War. MOFA announced that, although it had requested the US Department of Defense to investigate these allegations, Washington had replied that it was unable to find any evidence from the period in question."
Ellen Brown | Banking for California's Future
http://www.truth-out.org/banking-californias-future/1316109326
Ellen Brown, YES! Magazine: "AB 750, California's bill to study the feasibility of establishing a state-owned bank that would receive deposits of state funds, has passed both houses of the legislature and is now on the desk of Governor Jerry Brown awaiting his signature. It could be the governor's chance to restore the state to its former glory.... But that was before Proposition 13, a California constitutional amendment enacted by voter initiative in 1978. Prop 13 limited real property taxes to one percent of the full cash value of the property and required a two-thirds majority in both legislative houses for future increases of any state tax rates."
Surveillance in the "Homeland": Targeting Dissent
http://www.truth-out.org/targeting-dissent/1314383265
Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: "How little - yet how much - has changed in the last 40 years. The COINTELPRO papers sound distinctly 21st century as they detail the monitoring of perceived threats to 'national security' by the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency (NSA), Secret Service, and the military, as well as the intelligence bureaucracy's war on First Amendment protest activity. The Church Committee investigation concluded in 1976 that the 'unexpressed major premise of the programs was that a law enforcement agency has the duty to do whatever is necessary to combat perceived threats to the existing social and political order.'"
A Murder in Georgia
http://www.truth-out.org/murder-georgia/1315837592
Robert Wilbur, Truthout: "On Tuesday, September 6, a Chatham County Superior Court judge put the final stamp on a 19-year battle to save the life of an innocent man from Georgia's executioner. On that date, Judge Penny Freeseman signed a death warrant for Troy Anthony Davis, setting his execution between September 21 and September 28; the exact date will be decided by Georgia's Department of Corrections.... The American system of justice turned a deaf ear to Davis, year after year, appeal after appeal. Seemingly, it is more important to demonstrate that the system 'works' rather than that it unmasks the truth - no matter that the price is going to be the life of an innocent man, especially a black man."
A Political Casualty of 9/11: The Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement
http://www.truth-out.org/political-casualty-911-anti-corporate-globalization-movement/1316099319
Daniel Denvir, Truthout: "Nine-eleven's ten-year anniversary is sparking retrospectives ranging from lives lost to a War on Terror launched. But media accounts have omitted an important political casualty: the short-lived 'anti-globalization' movement, perhaps the largest American social movement since the civil rights and Vietnam War era."
The Phony Solyndra Solar Scandal
http://www.truth-out.org/phony-solyndra-solar-scandal/1316098873
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: "Well here's a surprise: conservatives and oil interests are pushing deceptive and destructive stories about President Obama and clean energy. Imagine that! Their intent (as always) is to turn people against President Obama, clean energy, national energy policy, stimulus to help the economy, and government in general. It's what they do. Here is some information to help you push back on the latest whipped-up, anti-green, anti-government, anti-Obama 'scandal.'"
Kabul Attack Continues Taliban Control of War Narrative
http://www.truth-out.org/kabul-attack-continues-taliban-control-war-narrative/1316092796
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "Gen. David Petraeus wrote in his 2006 counterinsurgency manual that the U.S. command headquarters should establish a 'narrative' for the counterinsurgency war - a simple storyline that provides a framework for understanding events, both for the population of the country in question and for international audiences."
An Exclusive Excerpt From Barry Eisler's New Book "The Detachment"
http://www.truth-out.org/Exclusive-Excerpt-Barry-Eisler-New-Book-The-Detachment/1316094930
Truthout: "The politics of your previous book, 'Inside Out,' were fascinating, and familiar to readers of Truthout - how torture, secret prisons, rendition, and all the rest degrades US national security and puts America at increasing risk. Does 'The Detachment' build on that? Barry Eisler: 'If I had to describe the politics of 'The Detachment,' I'd say they have to do with a metastasizing national security state and what happens to a society deliberately kept in a permanent state of fear. What's funny to me, though, is that I don't think of my novels as any more political than the typical 'Islamic zealot plants a bomb under the city and the hero has to torture a bunch of people to find out where' thriller plot line. They're both inherently political; it's just that mine reflects reality and the other is a cartoon."
Lehman Three Years Later: What We Haven't Learned
http://www.truth-out.org/lehman-three-years-later-what-we-havent-learned/1316097681
Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research: "As we prepare to celebrate the third anniversary of the Lehman bankruptcy and the ensuing financial crisis, it's a good time to assess the situation and ask what has changed. The answer is not encouraging. Very little has changed about either the realities on the ground or the intellectual debate on economic issues in the last three years. The too-big-to-fail banks are bigger than ever as a result of crisis-induced mergers. Financial industry profits now exceed their pre-crisis share of corporate profits, and executive pay and bonuses are again at their bubble peaks."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: House Republicans Introduce Their Own "American Jobs Act" - a More Apt Name for It Is the "Corporate Freeloaders Act," and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann/1316103269
In today's On the News segment: House Republicans introduced their own "American Jobs Act" - more aptly named - the "Corporate Freeloaders Act," Pennsylvania Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is trying to pass a bill that would change how Pennsylvania counts it's electoral votes in the next presidential election, FBI has fallen into the Islamophobia trap, federal investigators found that BP's cost- and time-saving decisions led to the death of 11 men, new poll: Americans blame Republicans most for the infighting in Washington, and more.
America and Oil: Declining Together?
http://www.truth-out.org/america-and-oil-declining-together/1316096164
Michael Klare, TomDispatch: "America and Oil. It's like bacon and eggs, Batman and Robin. As the old song lyric went, you can't have one without the other. Once upon a time, it was also a surefire formula for national greatness and global preeminence. Now, it's a guarantee of a trip to hell in a hand basket. The Chinese know it. Does Washington?"
Paul Krugman | A Constant Flow of Bad News for Europe and the US
http://www.truth-out.org/constant-flow-bad-news-europe-and-us/1316093861
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "In the United States, we have zero job growth, with unemployment still at nosebleed levels, according to a recent government report. Meanwhile, the interest rate on 10-year bonds is down to 2.04 percent, and it's negative on inflation-protected securities."
As Obama Pitches Jobs Bill, Voters Aren't Pressing Congress
http://www.truth-out.org/obama-pitches-jobs-bill-voters-arent-pressing-congress/1316092891
Curtis Tate and Lesley Clark, McClatchy Newspapers: "Since he announced his job-creation plan last week in a nationally televised address at a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama has hit the road, using stops in crucial swing states to press Americans to speak up. 'Democrats and Republicans have supported every kind of proposal that's in the American Jobs Act in the past,' Obama said Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C. 'Well, we got to tell them: "Support it now." That's where you come in.'"
Nurses Take on Wall Street
http://www.truth-out.org/nurses-take-wall-street/1315331593
Carl Finamore, Truthout: "An open-air soup kitchen staffed by registered nurses in union T-shirts feeding a line of San Franciscan's midday outside a busy federal building is not something you see every day and it caused heads to turn. It was intended to make a point, one also emphatically made at protest rallies outside 60 other legislative offices in 21 states attended by thousands of nurses and community friends."
Subversive Environmental History
http://www.truth-out.org/subversive-environmental-history/1314973312
Evaggelos Vallianatos, Truthout: "In an original essay Aldo Leopold wrote in volume 31 of the 'Journal of Forestry,' in 1933, he connected the survival of America to an abiding respect for nature, especially the integrity of the land. Leopold was professor at the University of Wisconsin. He was disturbed by America's misuse of its forests, land and wildlife. He drew an intimate connection between land and civilization, insisting that civilization 'is a state of mutual and interdependent cooperation between human animals, other animals, plants and soils, which may be disrupted at any moment by the failure of any of them.'"
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Why shouldn't Congressional representatives and senators receive retirement benefits at the same age of eligibility for Social Security?
That's a good question, particularly since the Congressional pensions are lavish in comparison to Social Security.
Sen. Sherrod Brown criticized this inequity earlier this year: (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13010)
[indent] Currently, Members of Congress can begin collecting pensions as early as age 50, while working Americans cannot collect full Social Security benefits until age 66. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), retirement with an immediate, full pension is available to Members of Congress covered under FERS at age 62 or older with at least five years of federal service; at age 50 or older with at least 20 years of service; and at any age to Members with at least 25 years of service. For Members covered by CSRS, retirement with an immediate, full pension is available to Members age 60 or older with 10 years of service in Congress, or age 62 with five years of civilian federal service, including service in Congress.
Brown strongly opposes raising the retirement age for Social Security due to the high number of Ohioans who are engaged in physically demanding work - on a shop floor, production line, or farmland. Brown has long been active in efforts to protect Social Security from privatization, and has worked to ensure that seniors can continue to afford necessities like prescription drugs despite the lack of cost-of-living-adjustments (COLA) that Social Security recipients have faced for the past two years. [/indent]
This week, Brown introduced legislation to ensure that any increase in Social Security retirement age is matched by the same age of eligibility being applied to the generous taxpayer-funded pension plans for those serving in Congress. (http://www.nationaljournal.com/sherrod-brown-proposes-members-push-back-retirement-20110915)
Given that the White House has been sending out trial balloons for weeks that President Obama inexplicably supports raising the eligibility age for Social Security to 68, it is of some comfort that at least one member of Congress is holding our elected officials accountable for "walking in our shoes."
Yet, if Brown's bill is unlikely to pass, he considers legislation that would make deficit reduction begin on Capitol Hill - through reducing Congressional salaries by 10 percent - even a longer shot.
"I think some might [take the cut]," Brown said. "But I would guess probably a bill like that won't pass."
That is because as far as most of DC is concerned, including the White House, what's good for the goose (cuts in pensions, salaries, and health care for the working class) is not good for the gander (the elected elites who enact those cuts on everyone but themselves and the wealthy.)
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Thursday 15 September 2011 <br />
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<font><strong>Perry and the HPV Vaccine: Selling Women's Health (and Everything Else) to the Highest Bidder</strong></font><br />
Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check: "In 2007, Governor Rick Perry shocked both public health officials and his conservative base when he signed an executive order mandating that female students in Texas be vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) before entering the sixth grade. The order referred to Gardasil, a vaccine that had been approved by the FDA only a few months earlier after having been found to prevent infection with four strains of HPV, including two strains that account for 70 percent of cervical cancer and two that account for 90 percent of genital warts. The FDA approved the three-shot regimen for young women ages nine to 26 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that this become part of the routine vaccinations of girls at ages 11 or 12 because 'it is important for girls to get HPV vaccine before their first sexual contact - because they won't have been exposed to human papillomavirus.'"<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gPNYKV%2FjHx1Ne92pVwDsCVHiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>US Military Defoliants on Okinawa: Agent Orange</strong></font><br />
Jon Mitchell, The Asia-Pacific Journal: "On August 19th, 2011, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement in response to recent media coverage about the US military's use and storage of defoliants (including Agent Orange) on Okinawa during the Vietnam War. MOFA announced that, although it had requested the US Department of Defense to investigate these allegations, Washington had replied that it was unable to find any evidence from the period in question." <br />
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<font><strong>Ellen Brown | Banking for California's Future</strong></font><br />
Ellen Brown, YES! Magazine: "AB 750, California's bill to study the feasibility of establishing a state-owned bank that would receive deposits of state funds, has passed both houses of the legislature and is now on the desk of Governor Jerry Brown awaiting his signature. It could be the governor's chance to restore the state to its former glory.... But that was before Proposition 13, a California constitutional amendment enacted by voter initiative in 1978. Prop 13 limited real property taxes to one percent of the full cash value of the property and required a two-thirds majority in both legislative houses for future increases of any state tax rates."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1KTSwVC7gNgZVYlpKCAGx1HiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Surveillance in the "Homeland": Targeting Dissent</strong></font><br />
Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: "How little - yet how much - has changed in the last 40 years. The COINTELPRO papers sound distinctly 21st century as they detail the monitoring of perceived threats to 'national security' by the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency (NSA), Secret Service, and the military, as well as the intelligence bureaucracy's war on First Amendment protest activity. The Church Committee investigation concluded in 1976 that the 'unexpressed major premise of the programs was that a law enforcement agency has the duty to do whatever is necessary to combat perceived threats to the existing social and political order.'"<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bZSGT8Y8yrEHQsbsdGBQiVHiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>A Murder in Georgia</strong></font><br />
Robert Wilbur, Truthout: "On Tuesday, September 6, a Chatham County Superior Court judge put the final stamp on a 19-year battle to save the life of an innocent man from Georgia's executioner. On that date, Judge Penny Freeseman signed a death warrant for Troy Anthony Davis, setting his execution between September 21 and September 28; the exact date will be decided by Georgia's Department of Corrections.... The American system of justice turned a deaf ear to Davis, year after year, appeal after appeal. Seemingly, it is more important to demonstrate that the system 'works' rather than that it unmasks the truth - no matter that the price is going to be the life of an innocent man, especially a black man."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0WSkNhhFzVOPhxoPbEv%2BuVHiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>A Political Casualty of 9/11: The Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement</strong></font><br />
Daniel Denvir, Truthout: "Nine-eleven's ten-year anniversary is sparking retrospectives ranging from lives lost to a War on Terror launched. But media accounts have omitted an important political casualty: the short-lived 'anti-globalization' movement, perhaps the largest American social movement since the civil rights and Vietnam War era."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Y8aHxfQpxxi5SNN%2BCe6e6FHiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Phony Solyndra Solar Scandal</strong></font><br />
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: "Well here's a surprise: conservatives and oil interests are pushing deceptive and destructive stories about President Obama and clean energy. Imagine that! Their intent (as always) is to turn people against President Obama, clean energy, national energy policy, stimulus to help the economy, and government in general. It's what they do. Here is some information to help you push back on the latest whipped-up, anti-green, anti-government, anti-Obama 'scandal.'"<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=G3Go10gZw1kf2yJuwqYoy1HiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Kabul Attack Continues Taliban Control of War Narrative</strong></font><br />
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "Gen. David Petraeus wrote in his 2006 counterinsurgency manual that the U.S. command headquarters should establish a 'narrative' for the counterinsurgency war - a simple storyline that provides a framework for understanding events, both for the population of the country in question and for international audiences."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VufpMyLZJB%2F9BqCfCncgJBkEA%2BKWPNAL"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>An Exclusive Excerpt From Barry Eisler's New Book "The Detachment"</strong></font><br />
Truthout: "The politics of your previous book, 'Inside Out,' were fascinating, and familiar to readers of Truthout - how torture, secret prisons, rendition, and all the rest degrades US national security and puts America at increasing risk. Does 'The Detachment' build on that? Barry Eisler: 'If I had to describe the politics of 'The Detachment,' I'd say they have to do with a metastasizing national security state and what happens to a society deliberately kept in a permanent state of fear. What's funny to me, though, is that I don't think of my novels as any more political than the typical 'Islamic zealot plants a bomb under the city and the hero has to torture a bunch of people to find out where' thriller plot line. They're both inherently political; it's just that mine reflects reality and the other is a cartoon."<br />
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<font><strong>Lehman Three Years Later: What We Haven't Learned</strong></font><br />
Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research: "As we prepare to celebrate the third anniversary of the Lehman bankruptcy and the ensuing financial crisis, it's a good time to assess the situation and ask what has changed. The answer is not encouraging. Very little has changed about either the realities on the ground or the intellectual debate on economic issues in the last three years. The too-big-to-fail banks are bigger than ever as a result of crisis-induced mergers. Financial industry profits now exceed their pre-crisis share of corporate profits, and executive pay and bonuses are again at their bubble peaks."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=REAAZgF8vHFNlMwrxdwHzFHiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: House Republicans Introduce Their Own "American Jobs Act" - a More Apt Name for It Is the "Corporate Freeloaders Act," and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News segment: House Republicans introduced their own "American Jobs Act" - more aptly named - the "Corporate Freeloaders Act," Pennsylvania Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is trying to pass a bill that would change how Pennsylvania counts it's electoral votes in the next presidential election, FBI has fallen into the Islamophobia trap, federal investigators found that BP's cost- and time-saving decisions led to the death of 11 men, new poll: Americans blame Republicans most for the infighting in Washington, and more.<br />
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<font><strong>America and Oil: Declining Together?</strong></font><br />
Michael Klare, TomDispatch: "America and Oil. It's like bacon and eggs, Batman and Robin. As the old song lyric went, you can't have one without the other. Once upon a time, it was also a surefire formula for national greatness and global preeminence. Now, it's a guarantee of a trip to hell in a hand basket. The Chinese know it. Does Washington?"<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nnAXjsLMjBMd3oRjmdLiVFHiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Paul Krugman | A Constant Flow of Bad News for Europe and the US</strong></font><br />
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "In the United States, we have zero job growth, with unemployment still at nosebleed levels, according to a recent government report. Meanwhile, the interest rate on 10-year bonds is down to 2.04 percent, and it's negative on inflation-protected securities."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SFKqQ7ZI2ivK59crYGPZ81HiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>As Obama Pitches Jobs Bill, Voters Aren't Pressing Congress</strong></font><br />
Curtis Tate and Lesley Clark, McClatchy Newspapers: "Since he announced his job-creation plan last week in a nationally televised address at a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama has hit the road, using stops in crucial swing states to press Americans to speak up. 'Democrats and Republicans have supported every kind of proposal that's in the American Jobs Act in the past,' Obama said Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C. 'Well, we got to tell them: "Support it now." That's where you come in.'" <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2B0GCNSnAinOx%2FF8ZEZ8buFHiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Nurses Take on Wall Street</strong></font><br />
Carl Finamore, Truthout: "An open-air soup kitchen staffed by registered nurses in union T-shirts feeding a line of San Franciscan's midday outside a busy federal building is not something you see every day and it caused heads to turn. It was intended to make a point, one also emphatically made at protest rallies outside 60 other legislative offices in 21 states attended by thousands of nurses and community friends." <br />
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<font><strong>Subversive Environmental History</strong></font><br />
Evaggelos Vallianatos, Truthout: "In an original essay Aldo Leopold wrote in volume 31 of the 'Journal of Forestry,' in 1933, he connected the survival of America to an abiding respect for nature, especially the integrity of the land. Leopold was professor at the University of Wisconsin. He was disturbed by America's misuse of its forests, land and wildlife. He drew an intimate connection between land and civilization, insisting that civilization 'is a state of mutual and interdependent cooperation between human animals, other animals, plants and soils, which may be disrupted at any moment by the failure of any of them.'" <br />
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<p>Why shouldn't Congressional representatives and senators receive retirement benefits at the same age of eligibility for Social Security?</p>
<p>That's a good question, particularly since the Congressional pensions are lavish in comparison to Social Security.</p>
<p>Sen. Sherrod Brown criticized this inequity <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=z9MSF%2BQ0xWWNlWSpIQvCiVHiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">earlier this year</font></a>:</p>
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<p>Currently, Members of Congress can begin collecting pensions as early as age 50, while working Americans cannot collect full Social Security benefits until age 66. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), retirement with an immediate, full pension is available to Members of Congress covered under FERS at age 62 or older with at least five years of federal service; at age 50 or older with at least 20 years of service; and at any age to Members with at least 25 years of service. For Members covered by CSRS, retirement with an immediate, full pension is available to Members age 60 or older with 10 years of service in Congress, or age 62 with five years of civilian federal service, including service in Congress.</p>
<p>Brown strongly opposes raising the retirement age for Social Security due to the high number of Ohioans who are engaged in physically demanding work - on a shop floor, production line, or farmland. Brown has long been active in efforts to protect Social Security from privatization, and has worked to ensure that seniors can continue to afford necessities like prescription drugs despite the lack of cost-of-living-adjustments (COLA) that Social Security recipients have faced for the past two years.</p>
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<p>This week, <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4l%2FUfmBCDhuGIn7lZK%2B2t1HiMKSLqbr6"><font color="#cc0000">Brown introduced legislation</font></a> to ensure that any increase in Social Security retirement age is matched by the same age of eligibility being applied to the generous taxpayer-funded pension plans for those serving in Congress.</p>
<p>Given that the White House has been sending out trial balloons for weeks that President Obama inexplicably supports raising the eligibility age for Social Security to 68, it is of some comfort that at least one member of Congress is holding our elected officials accountable for "walking in our shoes."</p>
<p>Yet, if Brown's bill is unlikely to pass, he considers legislation that would make deficit reduction begin on Capitol Hill - through reducing Congressional salaries by 10 percent - even a longer shot.</p>
<p>"I think some might [take the cut]," Brown said. "But I would guess probably a bill like that won't pass."</p>
<p>That is because as far as most of DC is concerned, including the White House, what's good for the goose (cuts in pensions, salaries, and health care for the working class) is not good for the gander (the elected elites who enact those cuts on everyone but themselves and the wealthy.)</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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