#social security

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#already #clear #congress #dismantled #loud

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#fixed #future #had #make #our

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#because #buy #cost #heart #her

For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run. ↗

— John Sununu

#accounts #children #create #get #higher

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#demise #effective #overstated #predictions #prior

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 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

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

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

— Nick Clooney

#out #pay #round #security #social

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

— Nick Clooney

#front #last #nation #security #social