Young Americans Getting Riled Up

Students are now more involved in the personal account fight than ever before: Students for Saving Social Security now has over 100 chapters on colleges and universities across the nation. (118 to be precise.) And just yesterday, Ben Ferguson, a student at Ole Miss and a member of SSSS shared the stage with President Bush and Ben Stein at a town hall meeting in Maryland. And there are many events coming up: Storm for Reform - Sunday June 26th Taft Memorial Park from 2:00pm-4:00pm Young Americans from across the country will rally at the Capitol for personal accounts. See Fix Our Future for details. Storm the Capitol - Wednesday June 29th Taft Memorial Park from 11:00am to 12:30pm 11:00am Free Snow Cones! 11:30am Press Conference 12:00pm Students meet with Senators Interns from across DC are invited to meet with their Senators to tell them how much our generation supports personal accounts. (Meetings have already been set up.) Snow cones and snow men...in the middle of summer? And what does it have to do with personal accounts? Details will be revealed at the press conference.
Posted by on June 24, 2005 12:11 PM to Social Security Choice