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Ferol Wegner is a 83 year-old grandmother and activist from Des Moines, Iowa.  Ferol depends on Social Security and worries about a future where her children and grandchildren won't have access to the same retirement security programs as she has had.  She traveled to Washington DC this summer with a contingent from Iowa who met with their Senators and Representatives to demand that no cuts be made to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

After a recent protest against Social Security cuts, Ferol was quoted in the local newspaper:  “Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are so important, and so vital to the future stability and vitality of our country [that] sitting back quietly while career politicians debate cuts to our livelihood would be unacceptable. It is our duty as citizens to change the debate to raising revenues from wall st and the super wealthy so elected officials know what we want, and then to hold them accountable.”