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Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have ... TONY SNOW Imagine if there were no Social Security COLA and today's 47 million Social Security beneficiaries h...
WILLIAM NOVELLI More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benef...
MITCH MCCONNELL Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
CHAKA FATTAH
However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement securi... RUBEN HINOJOSA We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this impor...
RICHARD NEAL More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Securi...
MITCH MCCONNELL I will vote against any bill that takes Social Security tax dollars and diverts them to any other pu...
ROB SIMMONS
Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cut... DENNIS CARDOZA
It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to inv... MIKE PENCE All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citize...
STEVE KING The best way to celebrate Social Security's birthday would be to enact legislation that ensures Amer...
JIM MCCRERY Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.
SUE KELLY count on getting the Social Security benefits they have earned.
BOB ETHERIDGE All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior ci...
STEVE KING Millions of Americans had their (Social Security) cards used by illegal aliens. But the bureaucrats ...
REP. SUE MYRICK If we earn less, we receive a lower Social Security payment in retirement. Any proposals that cut re...
SEAN CAHILL With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to...
FRANK KEATING The president's proposal would reduce benefits for people living on Social Security and subject what...
JASON FURMAN The fact that we're here celebrating Social Security shows some politicians' promises are worth more...
PAUL KRUGMAN Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were so...
JOHN SHADEGG I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full b...
SUE KELLY I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise th...
CHAKA FATTAH Americans should be able to enjoy a secure retirement after a lifetime of hard work. But too many Am...
THOMAS E. PEREZ
Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise... SENATOR JOHN KERRY
My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicar... MARCO RUBIO Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in ...
ADAM COHEN
By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in persona... MIKE PENCE The diversion of Social Security revenues to private investment accounts would shift much of the ris...
JEFF BINGAMAN Social Security is important to the economic survival of African Americans and other people of color...
HILARY SHELTON Fast Foods are a diabolically clever way of targeting poor people and African Americans by the gover...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
When President Roosevelt signed Social Security into law in 1935, 65 percent of African Americans na... TA-NEHISI COATES Nearly 30 percent of adults aged 75 and older have one or more disabilities in performing basic acti...
LAURA P. SANDS The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings...
ROB SIMMONS The debate over Social Security should not be about how much we can cut from the program in order to...
SHERROD BROWN People pay a lot of attention to their Social Security statements.
ANN COMBS The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all ...
STEVE ISRAEL
One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare ... DAVE REICHERT When you're dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social...
CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number ...
NEAL BOORTZ This is going to be critical to make sure people have access to their Social Security, or SSI, or no...
JIM MCCRERY The issues of Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security -- what are we doing to convince the America...
JOHN KASICH
For 70 years, Social Security has never failed to pay a promised benefit to seniors or people with d... JOHN SALAZAR Imagine if we had privatized Social Security, and all these people had $50,000 or $100,000 in their ...
WILLIAM GALE I'm a conservative, but with a focus on average people. For instance, I support Social Security ...
VIRGIL GOODE The magnitude for trying to create an administrative system and make it functional for 140 million p...
DALLAS SALISBURY If the person receives Social Security benefits and violate sex offender law requirements, the payme...
CAPT. KRISTIN MINISTRAL Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of thos...
NORM COLEMAN Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything ...
TOM DELAY Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefi...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, b...
DEBBIE STABENOW The president said that would harm Social Security. But when the president wanted to spend that same...
DAN COATS Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use sca...
TED DEUTCH There's been a lot said about Social Security reform. What has been left out of the debate is the do...
ROB SIMMONS
I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare,... BERNIE SANDERS I don't see a voluntary return of more than 1 million displaced people to their villages to start in...
JAN PRONK Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money ...
JOE MILLER You don't keep real confidence in the economy when you hear that the Social Security system is going...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in A...
JOHN SHADEGG That's a net gain for social Security.
JULIE MURRAY Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Rural Americans need to read the fine print in President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security,
BOB ETHERIDGE
Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security syst... KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security syst...
KAY HUTCHISON Every high school graduate with a Social Security Number is entitled to free or cheap money to pay f...
MARTHA HOLLER I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration it...
JAMES T. WALSH Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Ame...
ZOE LOFGREN I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security ...
TOM COBURN I am glad H&R Block says that revealing social security numbers is against its policy. The question ...
ANDREW JAQUITH Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.
CHUCK HAGEL The major impact of Sept. 11 on privatization is the disappearance of the Social Security surplus, ....
MARSHALL WITTMAN
We can set aside a surplus to save Social Security or Medicare, or we can pass the burden of the bab... JOHN SPRATT The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed...
CHAKA FATTAH
You should rest assured. You are going to get Social Security benefits as long as you are alive, BILL BRADLEY The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers un...
MARK DAYTON Social Security is more than just a retirement program. The biggest misunderstanding is that it's a ...
KURT CZARNOWSKI explain to the American people why they want to use Social Security trust funds for the tax cut.
TOM DASCHLE Better than brothers. And on my driver's license, my Social Security card, everything. Most people w...
U.Z. BRIDGES Red Cross is evicting people from shelters because of the color of their skin. They are asking for s...
VICTORIA CINTRA
More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant ... ALEX TABARROK Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security fac...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE There's been a lot said about Social Security reform. What has been left out of the debate is th...
ROB SIMMONS With the new system at Champlain, I cannot get Social Security numbers of my students. I can't even ...
GARY KESSLER The baby boomer generation is retiring and the demands on Social Security will increase exponentiall...
DOUG HATTAWAY Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress ha...
CHRIS CHOCOLA The vice president is again raising the specter of Social Security to frighten senior citizens, ... ...
JOHN MCCAIN
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended fo... MIKE PENCE The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future worker...
MARK DAYTON
The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social phi... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million p...
STEVE ISRAEL People are very insecure. It's a common thread, ... All of these people have security questions in s...
JAMES CLYBURN It's pretty obvious Social Security is on its last legs,
BRUCE BARTLETT
People are hurting, 3 million people lost their jobs, 43 million Americans have no health insurance. TERRY MCAULIFFE
Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social S... BERNIE SANDERS
No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Se... JOE BIDEN We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's ...
DICK ARMEY I am honored that Congressman Ryan will be addressing students and interns about reform of Social Se...
RON ROBINSON
The President's plan to privatize Social Security would actually take away guaranteed benefits and p... PATTY MURRAY The Social Security numbers on the packages had no formatting that would make them stand out, and no...
DENISE SPOSATO
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When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go o... 
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