SSI Urges Candidates To Take Social Security Survey

SOCIAL SECURITY INSTITUTE PRESIDENT URGES PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO TAKE THE SSI CANDIDATE SURVEY ON SOCIAL SECURITY

Published 09/26/2011 - 9:22 a.m. CST

WARRENTON, VA — In a letter Sunday addressed to all Republican presidential candidates, Social Security Institute president Lawrence A. Hunter asked GOP White House aspirants to fill out the SSI Candidate Survey on Social Security to provide voters clear and concise answers to nine fundamental questions about the nation’s most important retirement program.

Hunter said:

“There are a number of basic questions about Social Security the next president will be forced to confront. Therefore, before asking people to vote for them, candidates for the presidency are obligated to provide voters clear and concise answers to these fundamental questions.

The Social Security Institute has constructed a straightforward nine-question survey that our supporters are demanding presidential candidates answer to inform voters about the candidates’ views and positions on Social Security. THIS SURVEY IS NOT A PLEDGE TO SUPPORT ANY PARTICULAR PLAN TO REFORM SOCIAL SECURITY. The questionnaire is meant to provide voters specific answers to specific questions that the next president will be unable to avoid addressing once in office.”

In his weekly Forbes column (http://www.forbes.com/sites/lawrencehunter/2011/09/25/the-social-security-institutes-questionnaire-for-presidential-candidates/), Hunter published the survey and explained why the Social Security Institute is pushing candidates to take the survey:

“There is so much rhetoric and so many generalities flying around the campaign trail about Social Security—what it is, what condition it’s in and what should be done to preserve or reform it—that it is impossible for voters to know where the candidates stand on specifics. The rhetorical arguments generate more heat than light. Presidential debates encourage slick posturing, not specific answers. The Mainstream Media is more interested in using the debates to advance its own agenda than enlightening voters. Therefore, if voters hope to know specifics about where the candidates stand on Social Security, it is up to them to squeeze the specifics out of the candidates.”

Hunter said that left to their own devices candidates would continue to “dodge and obfuscate” on Social Security, and therefore SSI has decided to go directly to the grass roots with a petition drive (http://socialsecurityinstitute.com/petitions/on-the-record-on-social-security) to make sure candidates understand the necessity of filling out the simple nine-question survey.

The message is blunt: “If you don’t respect me enough to be straight with me on Social Security and fill out the SSI Social Security Survey, I won’t trust you enough to vote for you. No Survey = No Vote.”

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