April 30 Convention Proposed Platform Change P-101

Proposed Platform Change P 101   Convention documents click on P 101

UCRP CBC Voter Information Guide
Platform P-101 – Entitlement Reform

•       ( Changes in bold,  additions are underlined, removed text is in strikethrough)

•       Social Security

•       Social Security must satisfy its obligations to those who have contributed to it, and become an optional program for any who wish to participate.

•       Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid have become entitlements far beyond the minimal safety net they were intended to be.  We call for urgent and significant entitlement reform which returns to the principles of free-market choice and financial self-reliance,

 National Republican Platform   2009 National Republican Platform download PDF version

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•        National Republican Platform

•       Social Security

•       We are committed to putting Social Security on a sound fiscal basis. Our society faces a profound demographic shift over the next twenty-five years, from todayís ratio of 3.3 workers for every retiree to only2.1workersby2034. Under the current system, younger workers will not be able to depend on Social Security as part of their retirement plan. We believe the solution should give workers control over, and a fair return on, their contributions. No changes in the system should adversely affect any current or near- retiree. Comprehensive reform should include the opportunity to freely choose to create your own per- sonal investment accounts which are distinct from and supplemental to the overall Social Security sys- tem.