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The President Should Be Saluting Our Seniors and Soldiers Scaring Them is Dereliction of Duty

(Alexandria, Virginia) – 60 Plus Association Chairman Jim Martin today released a web video chastising President Obama and Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) for using the debt-limit crisis to scare seniors and soldiers about whether or not they will get their checks.

July 31, 2011 | Read more…

President Holding Seniors Hostage in Debt Debate

60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin: “Shame on him for scaring seniors to for political advantage.”

(Alexandria, Virginia) – 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin, leader of the largest conservative seniors advocacy group in the nation, today responded to President Obama’s suggestion that failure to raise the debt limit could prevent Social Security checks from going out on time:

July 13, 2011 | Read more…

Seniors Tell President “Hands Off Our Social Security and Medicare”

“Obama proposal yet another assault on America’s seniors.”

(Alexandria, Virginia) – 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin, leader of the most influential conservative seniors advocacy group in the nation with over 7 million supporters, today responded to President Obama’s proposal to cut the national debt with a combination of tax increases and deep cuts to both Social Security and Medicare.  “I don’t often agree with the far left in the President’s party but I join them in their call to the President to keep ‘hands off Social Security and Medicare’.

July 8, 2011 | Read more…

AARP Ad Masks Anti-Senior Agenda, Cuts to Social Security

60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin slams group for “outrageous falsehoods, and outrageous profits.”

(Alexandria, Virginia) – 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin, leader of the nation’s most prominent conservative seniors advocacy group, lashed out today against a new TV advertising campaign from the AARP, which attacks the Republican plan to save Social Security and Medicare.  The ad campaign comes as news is surfacing that the AARP is now supporting cuts to Social Security benefits, as well as higher taxes on many working seniors.

June 17, 2011 | Read more…

A Lesson To Learn From Boomers’ Crisis

Chris Woodward
OneNewsNow
January 3, 2011

Baby boomers nearing age 65 and retirement are facing a financial disaster, but only a few solutions are available.

January 4, 2011 | Read more…

Deficit Commission Making Social Security Solvent? Again? Seniors Should Run These ‘Embezzlers’ Out Of Town

Reaction to Deficit Commission report by 60 Plus Association Chairman Jim Martin

Social Security is not a debt creator. Commission Co-Chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles should look in the mirror as should certain other Commission members, specifically Senators Hugh Gregg (R-NH) and Kent Conrad (D-ND). They’ll see honest-to-God debt creators, themselves!

December 7, 2010 | Read more…

CNNMoney profile: Why I took Social Security early

Today CNNMoney posted an article highlighting the lives of 7 seniors (including two 60 Plus members!) who chose to file for their Social Security benefits earlier than planned.

August 18, 2010 | Read more…