Social Security Deserves Debate Time
- by: AARP
- recipient: CNN, Fox News, and the other major TV networks
Social Security needs to be updated for the 21st Century so we can keep the promise to future generations. Yet in debate after debate, moderators from the major TV networks avoid asking the presidential candidates where they stand.
Americans pay into Social Security and they deserve to know how every presidential candidate would make Social Security financially sound for them, their kids and their grandkids. If our leaders don't act, future retirees could lose up $10,000 a year.
The major news networks have a responsibility to use the presidential debates to hold every candidate accountable for laying out a plan to update Social Security for future generations.
Soon, the Presidential candidates will take the stage for their next debates. Enough with the nonsense. Let's make sure that this time, they are asked the tough questions on Social Security.
Sign our petition today, and tell CNN, Fox News, and the other networks hosting debates to ask the candidates about their plans!
Subject: Enough is Enough. We need answers on Social Security!
If the next President doesn't tackle Social Security head-on, benefits could be cut by up to 25% in less than twenty years. Yet in debate after debate, CNN, Fox News, and the other major TV networks avoid asking the Presidential candidates where they stand. Or if they do ask, they let the candidates get away with soundbites instead of specifics.
Anyone who wants to be President should have a plan to keep Social Security strong. And the networks that host the Presidential debates have a responsibility to ask about it -- and get real answers.
I urge CNN, Fox News, and the other networks to give Social Security the attention it deserves.
