#social security

Small changes done now would preserve Social Security at full benefit. ↗

— James Roosevelt

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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

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Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round. ↗

— Nick Clooney

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Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner. ↗

— Nick Clooney

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If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

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In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

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On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

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Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

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We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

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And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that. ↗

— James T. Walsh

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