#social security

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#best #broke #claim #doubt #falling

Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore. ↗

— Peter Welch

#anymore #back #benefits #constituents #debt

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#cap #corner #eliminating #investigate #president

Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#affordable #all americans #bringing #cost #democrats

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#budget #bush #bush administration #claims #crisis

We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037. ↗

— Joe Heck

#bankrupt #go #know #medicare #security

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security. ↗

— Brian Higgins

#oppose #plan #president #privatize #security

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#breaches #card #cards #carefully #changes

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

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#benefits #democrats #failed #fight #gamble