I'm a conservative, but with a focus on average people. For instance, I support Social Security and Medicare.

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare.

I wouldn't turn my back on this man, ... especially given his support for privatizing Social Security and replacing it with a national lottery.

The magnitude for trying to create an administrative system and make it functional for 140 million people (in Social Security) could be done, but it will take years. The federal thrift program is having problems and that's a lot fewer people.

Social Security is important to the economic survival of African Americans and other people of color. We have traditionally been at the low end of the earning scale over our lifetime.

Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.