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Groups Raise Alarm Over Social Security Tampering as Debt Panel Starts Negotiations

Fox News, by Staff Posted By: MissMolly- Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:35:02 GMT Interest groups are sounding the alarm that President Obama's newly created debt commission could start hacking away at Social Security benefits in the name of closing the budget gap. As the 18'member panel held its first meeting, top executives from seniors groups and other organizations called for full transparency in its negotiations in the months ahead and urged the commission to consider the implications of putting entitlement programs on the chopping block. Some activists also criticized the commission's co'chairmen for planning to attend a fiscal summit Wednesday in Washington hosted by billionaire banker Peter Peterson,

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