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Penn Action and the Strengthen Social Security Campaign<\/a> have been working to get calls into our Senators in support of the Sanders\/Reid Protect Social Security Amendment. \u00a0 Click here<\/a> to find out how to call if you haven’t already.\u00a0\u00a0While calls are flooding D.C., we’re also asking you to tell us why you made your call. \u00a0Why do you want to protect Social Security?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I called because my grandfather died when my mom was only eleven years old and her younger brother was three. \u00a0Social Security survivor benefits helped keep my mom’s family afloat during that difficult time. \u00a0Social Security survivor benefits are part of the reason my grandmother could keep her home and my mom and her brothers were able to go to college, helping to secure their<\/em> families’ place in America’s middle class. \u00a0I owe a lot to Social Security, which is why I made the call to protect it from extremists who want to give\u00a0our<\/strong> benefits to billionaires and Wall Street.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Why did you make the call? \u00a0Do you benefit from Social Security? \u00a0Do you know someone who does? \u00a0Or do you simply appreciate and want to protect the most successful social program in the history of the country? \u00a0Please put your reason for defending Social Security in the comments section below.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Penn Action and the Strengthen Social Security Campaign have been working to get calls into our Senators in support of the Sanders\/Reid Protect Social Security Amendment. \u00a0 Click here to find out how to call if you haven’t already.\u00a0\u00a0While calls are flooding D.C., we’re also asking you to tell us why you made your call. \u00a0Why do you want to protect Social Security? I called because my grandfather died when my mom was only eleven years old and her younger brother was three. \u00a0Social Security survivor benefits helped keep my mom’s family afloat during that difficult time. \u00a0Social Security survivor benefits are part of the reason my grandmother could keep her home and my mom and her brothers were able to go to college, helping to secure their families’ place in America’s middle class. \u00a0I owe a lot to Social Security, which is why I made the call to protect\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[123,90],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-WG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5577,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/5577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}