Nearly 70,000 members of the Alliance for Retired Americans joined a call this week with Vice President Joe Biden to learn more about the Obama administration’s commitment to keeping Medicare and Social Security strong for future generations. The call was organized by the Alliance.

“President Obama and I have a fundamentally different view from Mitt Romney on how to move this country forward—and a fundamentally different value system. There is no place where that is more profound than retirement security,” said Vice President Biden on the call. “I don’t view retirement security based only on how it affects retirees, I view it based on how it affects the entire family.”

Seniors and working families are depending on the president to protect Social Security and Medicare from benefit cuts.

“....Mitt Romney wants to sell Medicare off to the big insurance companies and give away our Social Security to Wall Street,” said Barbara J. Easterling, president of the Alliance for Retired Americans.

As part of its Let’s Not Be the Last Generation to Retire campaign, the Alliance is educating and mobilizing seniors on the issues and the candidates in the 2012 elections.