#social security

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#government #like #rest #security #social

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#dead #economist #john #long #long run

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security. ↗

— Joe Biden

#accounts #cut #debate #how #legitimacy

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#bipartisan #debate #find #going #i

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#check #find #half #income #many

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#i #old #paper #route #security

The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#convince #country #dire #dire need #drastic

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen. ↗

— Fred Upton

#back #because #benefit #benefiting #benefits

I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#away #dubious #far #far away #gotten

Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#congress #in the past #into #over #past