She has been there for us on health care, retirement and other issues. She has a track record that shows she supports our issues.

The American Benefits Council, representing companies that either directly sponsor or provide services to retirement and health plans covering more than 100 million Americans, believes that it is critical that pension reform legislation be enacted this year,

The fact is that our (health care) delivery system is flawed. Many of us do not have an optimistic outlook.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

This is just not a world for amateurs. The stakes are higher for things like health care and retirement plans than jeans or cereal.

People are aware that they have a major problem with their retirement pensions [and] health insurance - they know that they're going to have to contribute more. That makes them insecure.