National Committee to Protect Social Security and Medicare
ad run in USA Today on Oct. 13, 2008 (in advance of the final presidential debate)



$700 BILLION
WORTH OF PROOF THAT

SOCIAL SECURITY
MUST NOT BE PRIVATIZED.

Have you had enough financial uncertainty lately?

Just imagine if President Bush and his congressional allies had succeeded in privatizing Social Security and turning the bedrock benefits millions of Americans rely
on into a Wall Street financial gimmick.

There are ways to keep Social Security safe and strong that don’t involve dangerous, radical notions like privatization.

During the final Presidential debate, Americans need to hear whether Social Security will be kept strong or if their retirement security will be put at risk on a
bankrupt idea like privatization.