Social Security Quotes - Page 12

• The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

  Bill Delahunt

  Sides, Debate, Social

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• Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office - like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security - are inalienable rights. They are not.

  Ben Shapiro

  Believe, Rights, Office

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• The Senate was holding hearings on deceptive sweepstakes practices. These companies target the elderly, making them think they're going to get a bunch of money, when in reality they never see any of it. The most popular of these scams is called Social Security.

  Colin Quinn

  Thinking, Reality, Elderly

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• Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

  Bill Delahunt

  Integrity, Financial, Social

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• There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.

  John McCain

  Cutting, Differences, Promise

  "Transcripts World Today Bush Pounds Tax Message Home in Iowa". cnn.com. January 14, 2000.

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• The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.

  Joe Heck

  Retirement, Thinking, Pyramid Schemes

  "Joe Heck: Social Security 'a pyramid scheme'". Interview with David Catanese, www.politico.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Retirement, Looks, Saving

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• We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

  Herb Kohl

  Senior, Retirement, Real

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• Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

  Grace Napolitano

  Retirement, Income, Roles

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

  Grace Napolitano

  Retirement, Benefits, Half

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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 Brown-Waite

  Retirement, Opportunity, Years

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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 Brown-Waite

  Retirement, Security Systems, Long

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• Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

  Diane Watson

  Retirement, Couple, Doe

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• Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Retirement, Work, Greatness

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• If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.

  Phil Mickelson

  Decision, Add, Unemployment

  "Phil Mickelson may quit golf due to rising taxes". www.sbnation.com. January 21, 2013.

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• My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt.

  Barack Obama

  Agreement, Guy, Leaving

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Donald Trump has said he wants to keep Medicare and Social Security the way they are. Congressman Price along with most Republicans are on record supporting voucherizing Medicare. So there are going to be some conflicts to resolve there.

  Mara Liasson

  Records, Want, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, Sex, Eye

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.146, Ballantine Books

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• So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they still want government programs. They want Social Security, they want Medicare. They need it.

  Jane Mayer

  Hate, Government, Class

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The reality is that the Republicans twice had Mitt Romney as a potential nominee. They chose him in 2008 - 2012. In 2008 and 2012, he had been the most get tough on illegal immigrants, on undocumented immigrants, illegals, as he called them, accused John McCain of wanting to give them Social Security checks, accused Mike Huckabee selling out to them with the DREAM Act in Arkansas, was really the most strident.

  Mark Shields

  Dream, Reality, Giving

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• The majority of Latinos in this country are 28 years old or younger. All of those people out there attacking the Latino community, when you see a Latino going down the street with a baby carriage and a couple of children walking beside them, they should say 'Hey, there goes my social security and my Medicare.' Those are the people that are going to contribute to keep our social security system funded and our medical system funded.

  Dolores Huerta

  Country, Baby, Children

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

  Diane Watson

  Senior, Women, Income

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• Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.

  Bernie Sanders

  Social, Deficit, Security

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing, Two, Lunch

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• The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

  George Will

  War, Men, Age

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