#social security

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system. ↗

— Steve Israel

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I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans. ↗

— Steve Israel

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I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested. ↗

— Steve Israel

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Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined. ↗

— Steve Israel

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The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system. ↗

— Steve Israel

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But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations. ↗

— Sue Kelly

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Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans. ↗

— Sue Kelly

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Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k). ↗

— Paul Krugman

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I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

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We are confronting a situation in which 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

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