Missouri Bus Tour Protesting Cuts in Veterans' Benefits, Medicare & Social Security to Travel State
Gray Panthers of Kansas & Western Missouri
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 17, 2012
Contacts:
Kansas City Stop - General
Dave Kingsley
785-550-3576
St. Louis Stop
Judith Parker
314-799-6690
Columbia Stop
Mary Hussmann
Progress Missouri
Sean Soendker Nicholson 573-795-5165
BUS TOUR PROTESTING CUTS IN VETERANS’ BENEFITS, MEDICARE & SOCIAL SECURITY TO TRAVEL ACROSS MISSOURI”
Seniors & Veterans will Protest Billionaire Backed Bus Tour Due to Arrive at Washington University in St. Louis on September 18th with Their Own Tour
(Kansas City, MO) – Seniors and veterans will tour from Kansas City to St. Louis on September 18th and arrive at Washington University in time to stage a protest against former Clinton Comptroller David Walker’s bus tour and presentation pushing for severe cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and veterans’ benefits. The tour will stop in Columbia at 11:30 AM (CST) for a rally and arrive at Washington University at 3:00 PM (CST) for a protest and rally.
Walker heads the “Ten Million a Minute Tour” backed by hedge fund billionaire Peter G. Peterson, which has provoked protests at its nationwide stops. Peterson has been a long-time advocate of privatizing Social Security and Medicare.
WHAT: Statewide bus tour and protest against billionaire-backed plan to cut Social Security, Medicare, and veterans’ benefits
WHO: The Gray Panthers will join the coalition of organizations sponsoring the tour.
WHEN: Tuesday, September 18 – leaving Kansas City at 9:00 A.M. (CST); stopping for rally in Columbia, MO at 11:00 A.M. (CST); and arrive at Forsyth Blvd near Simon Hall at 3:00 PM (CST)
WHERE: Lab Sciences Building at Washington University (protest on Forsyth Blvd.) ; turn into campus on Wallace Drive off of Forsyth Blvd - there is a stoplight at this intersection.
SPONSORED BY: GRO – Grass Roots Organizing, Missouri Alliance of Retired Americans, Gray Panthers of Kansas & Western Missouri, Veterans for Peace, Social Security Works, National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare
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Joseph Robert
6:40 pm on Monday, September 17, 2012
Attention Missouri Seniors on Medicare and All Others Using Government Assistance!!!
This is what Mitt Romney thinks of you and ALL OF AMERICANS dependent on government support:
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them.”
“..my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives”
Mitt Romney, speaking at fund-raising dinner, Spring 2012
Watch the video at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/mitt-romney-trashes-the-47-percent/2012/09/17/f3ef2b6e-0116-11e2-9367-4e1bafb958db_blog.html
Mitt Romney: He thinks you act like a VICTIM!