Quotes
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
“Social Security has prevented over 50 percent of seniors from falling into poverty. However, women still face greater financial pressures, especially later in life. Seventy percent of the elderly in poverty are women.”
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According to the 2010 census, older women in general outnumber older men at 23.0 million older women versus 17.5 million older men—so obviously more of the elderly living in poverty will be women! Perhaps DeLauro plans to blame Mother Nature for waging “War on Women”? http://www.aoa.gov/Aging_Statistics/Profile/2011/docs/2011profile.pdf http://rosadelauroexposed.wordpress.com/
Sounds more like a war on men.