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Quotes About Social security

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
~ Barack Obama
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
~ Arthur Hertzberg
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
~ Harry Browne
Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.
~ Ron Johnson
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Americans should be able to enjoy a secure retirement after a lifetime of hard work. But too many Americans reach retirement without enough savings to supplement their Social Security benefits.
~ Tom Perez
You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised.
~ Lloyd Blankfein
Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
~ Sander Levin
In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.
~ Nick Clooney
There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.
~ Noam Chomsky
Social Security is a fraudulent scheme in which the government collect money from you for your retirement - and immediately spend the money on something else.
~ Harry Browne
I never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money.
~ Ron Paul
Social security isn't a ponzi scheme. It's not bankrupting us. It's not an outrage. It is working.
~ Rachel Maddow
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
~ George W. Bush
No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.
~ Amit Kalantri
Arguably the most substantive domestic issue facing the republic is the fate of Social Security, with privatization the most frequently mentioned option. For the first time in history, a familiarity with the behavior of the financial markets has become a prerequisite for competent citizenship, apart from its obvious pecuniary value. Using
~ William J. Bernstein
If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.
~ Rob Portman
Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.
~ John Stossel
If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.
~ David Dewhurst
You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.
~ Richard Lamm
I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.
~ Donald Trump
Do you really think that Social Security disability insurance is part of what people think of when they think of Social Security? I don't think so. It's the fastest-growing program. It grew tremendously under President Obama. It's a very wasteful program, and we want to try and fix that.
~ Mick Mulvaney
By granting 4 million undocumented immigrants social security numbers that can potentially be misused through loopholes in our tax code and voting laws, President Obama is poisoning the waters of public perception and reinforcing negative stereotypes of Latinos and all immigrants.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
We cannot realize financial reconstruction and enhance social security without a strong economy.
~ Yoshihide Suga