Dear Friends,

I want to make it absolutely clear: I will never stop fighting to make sure your Social Security is safe and protected.

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare endorsed me because of my 100% rating. My opponent supports privatizing Social Security — a program that celebrated its 75th anniversary this year of always paying benefits out on time.

Let’s be clear about what privatizing Social Security means. It means turning Social Security over to Wall Street bankers – the very same Wall Street bankers that got this country into the economic mess we’re in today, and the very same Wall Street bankers my opponent and his far-right friends want to give more tax breaks to. I would never support privatizing Social Security.

Here are the facts. As of December 2009, 110,941 people across the 15th District received some form of Social Security benefits, with nearly 72,000 of those beneficiaries being over 65 years of age. I will not jeopardize the commitment we’ve made to all of those people by gambling with their Social Security benefits on Wall Street. Contrary to what some of the fear-mongers out there might say, the long-term outlook of Social Security today remains sound. We must ensure that younger workers will be able to collect Social Security benefits when they retire, just as generations of Americans before have done — and without putting this vital lifeline for seniors, workers with disabilities, and dependents in the greedy hands of Wall Street.

Since its inception, Social Security has kept millions out of poverty and provided stability and dignity for our elderly citizens. Privatizing Social Security isn’t the right way to improve the lives of working families and seniors across the 15th District, and so I will continue to fight it at every turn.

Please forward this email to 10 friends to help spread the facts about my views and my opponent’s views on Social Security.

With every good wish,

John Dingell