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President Bush Visits Metro Detroit Today

Group Plans To Rally Against Social Security Plan

POSTED: Tuesday, February 8, 2005

President George W. Bush will visit Michigan Tuesday for a speech with the Detroit Economic Club, but hundreds are expected to gather to protest his Social Security plan.

State Rep. Sander Levin will lead a rally against Bush's Social Security plan at 2 p.m. at the Cobo Center in Detroit. The Campaign for America's Future said they are promoting the efforts of more than 20 organizations opposing Bush's plan to replace the trusted Social Security system with a risky investment plan.

Levin noted in a news conference Monday that privatizing Social Security would take away the bedrock of retirement security that has given millions of seniors independence and economic stability.

Bush's Detroit appearance is a day after he sent Congress a $2.57 trillion budget plan. He is seeking deep spending cuts across a wide swath of government from reducing subsidies paid to the nation's farmers, cutting health care payments for poor people and veterans and trimming spending on the environment and education.

The president's luncheon at Cobo Center is sold out. The Detroit Economic Club says it will continue its tradition of hosting every American president since Richard M. Nixon.

Bush will also honor a local man, Jim Comer, during his trip to metro Detroit. Comer has been active with a VIP mentoring program for the past three years, according to Local 4.

The president has called upon Americans to volunteer two years of their lives or 4,000 hours to community service.

Bush last visited Michigan on Jan. 7, when he presided over a discussion of asbestos lawsuits at Macomb Community College in Macomb County's Clinton Township. Bush made 12 trips to Michigan in 2004 during his re-election campaign.

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