#social security

Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system. ↗

— Norm Coleman

#also #america #changed #created #example

I never sought to privatize Social Security. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#never #privatize #security #social #social security

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#change #contempt #continue #medicare #mislead

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform. ↗

— Steve Israel

#changes #consider #considering #disabilities #how

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#deserve #entire #financially #grandchildren #improvement

The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#again #bankruptcy #crisis #manufacturing #once

Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#am #beneficiaries #benefits #committed #concerned

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#burden #contribute #ease #elderly #eliminate

The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#expectancy #life #life expectancy #longer #much

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#allows #america #binding #compensation #court