University Daily Kansan, March 28, 1983
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Slatterv voices fears for Social Security
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
If the economy does not improve, Congress will have to do more than it did last week to keep the Social Security system afloat. Rep Jim Clifford said Tuesday that people attending a public forum yesterday at the Kansas Union.
The Social Security system loses $1,000 to $2,000 a year every time a person becomes unemployed, he said.
Congress passed a compromise
Social Security package last week that would provide $165 billion of the $200
billion in Social Security benefits to stay on budget until 1999, Slattery said.
Slattery was chairman of a task force on Social Security established by the United States.
The compromise package will require all new federal employees after Jan. 1 to participate in the Social Security system. On that date the president, vice president, all members of Congress and all current federal judges will also begin paying into the system.
"WE COULDN'T GO back home and ask everyone to participate in a solution if we as congressmen were unwilling." Slattert said.
The compromise plan will raise the retirement age for eligibility for Social Security benefits to 67 in the future, and the federal government to tax half of a person's Social
Security benefits as income if that person's income exceeds certain figures.
About 60 people, most of them senior citizens and a few of their students, braved cold winds and snow flurries to attend the forum in Alderson Auditorium. It was Slattery's first forum in Lawrence since he was elected to office
Several of the senior citizens applauded when Slattery announced that he had appointed Naomi Mensch, 420, to serve as a liaison for senior citizens.
"Her commitment to senior citizens has been outstanding," he said.
MENSCH WAS NOT present because she had been involved in an automobile crash.
"I'm told she is angry that she can't be here," Slattery said "so that means I can't be there."
The Social Security system was just one of the financial problems facing
"Interest rates are the key to economic recovery," he said, but added that rates wouldn't drop until the government stopped borrowing so much money.
The federal government must decrease its deficit in order to avoid competing with individuals and businesses for money, he said. That competition has driven up interest rates...
By 1988 the current annual federal deficit of $200 billion would increase to
$300 billion, Slattery said. The revenue that would be created by delaying tax cuts should not be used to increase spending.
"The only reason I will vote to delay tax cuts is if it will reduce the deficit," he said.
MANY PEOPLE ADVOCATE reducing defense spending as a way to improve the government's financial picture, Slattery said, but they have been poorly informed by the media about the complexities of the defense budget.
"very few congressmen are talking about reducing the defense budget," he said. "The choice is how much do you increase defense spending."
Slattery said he supported the development of simpler, more dependable, less expensive and less sophisticated weapons. He also advocates changes that would bring about less competition for and less duplication of weaponry and equipment among branches of the armed forces.
"I think we can get a lot bigger bang for our buck" he said.
"I think we ought to speak softly and
Slattery criticized Reagan for calling the country's defense capabilities second-rate and for making bellicose statements about the Soviet Union.
we ought to have a big stick," he said
"And we do have a big stick."
BUT SLATTERY SAID he would have voted for the nuclear weapons freeze resolution had it come to a final vote in the House.
"It's important that the United States go on record as being in support of."
Slattery said he opposed President Reagan's proposal to provide $110 million in military assistance to the government in El Salvador.
He will not support any increase in assistance to that country unless it is tied to negotiations between the government and the guerrilla forces there.
By conservative estimates, the United States and the Soviet Union each have 7,000 nuclear warheads, he said. And each warhead has more destructive capability than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"We would spend millions and it would be money down a rathole."
LEGITIMATE DOMESTIC FORCES in El Salvador are demanding change, Slattery said.
“If we are perceived by the people of that country as defenders of the status quo,” he said, “I think we’re going to be wrong side and on the losing side.”
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VANDALS SHATTERED a sliding glass door yesterday in the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, 1537 Tennessee St., police said.
BURGLARS STOLE a watch and a stereo, valued at $844; from a Lawrence store.
A CAR STEREO, valued at $275, was stolen last weekend from a Lawrence resident's car parked in the 900 block of Highland Road, police said.
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Pensioners first to feel impact of Soc. Sec. bill
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The first pinch of the $165 billion Social Security rescue bill will be felt by 36 million pensioners in July when their checks will not be fattened by the usual cost-of-living increase, which was put off for six months.
Next century is when Americans born in 1938 or later will have to begin retiring at age 67 to collect full Soria maternal data, a task that months after age 65, as is now the case.
Next year, the nation's employers will shell out an estimated 90 cents more for each job each week because of higher payroll taxes. Their 106 million employees will not feel the pain in 1984 because of an automatic tax credit.
The bill will raise $165 billion by 1990, the amount experts say is needed to pay
The senate gave the package final congressional approval early Friday on a 58-14 vote after many members had left for the Easter break. The House passed the bill Thursday, 243-102. President Reagan is expected to sum the bill next month.
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