Quotes About Financial

Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of being paid like NBA, NFL and soccer and baseball athletes. They have that cushion where they can kind of hang out. Even the guys on the bench. But for us, we don't fight, we don't get paid and that's the scary reality to it all.

Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it.

BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

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.

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

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.

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years.

Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.

I don't support getting rid of Social Security.

Social Security is fundamentally strong.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

In 1935, the year Social Security was created, the poverty rate for seniors was over 70%.

Many of my 20- and 30-something peers struggle with student loan debt and high rent, and more than once, I've erupted in laughter at the idea that I will collect any Social Security in my Betty White years.

A year's worth of Social Security for an individual is not considered to be below the poverty level, and yet we know that would be extraordinarily tough to live on.

I am not employed and my only income is Social Security.