Social Security Quotes - Page 11

• Republicans are suggesting that you take your retirement money and invest it in the stock market to take care of yourself but that leaves you with choices that you may not know anything about. The purpose of social Security is that you don't fall through the crack and find yourself destitute.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Retirement, Fall, Choices

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• The specific trigger for me was when the President [Barack Obama] put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. Why I got into the race - it just seemed unconscionable that the Democrats were leading the charge.

  Jill Stein

  Block, Race, President

  Source: www.pqmonthly.com

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• Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, Firsts, Amnesty

  "The lies Trump told this week: who's paying for the wall to immigration costs" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2016.

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• Let's protect our social security and Medicare.

  Donald Trump

  Social, Medicare, Protect

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

  Tim Kaine

  People, Poverty, Dignity

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We can talk about Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. We can talk about school, we can talk about everything. Defense is number one or we don't have a country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, School, Medicare And Medicaid

  Source: time.com

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• We can meet the obligations of Social security and Medicare. If we stay on the path that your party has us on, we'll be in a mountain range of debt and we're gonna face hard choices.

  Mike Pence

  Party, Mountain Ranges, Choices

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When Congressman [Mike] Pence was in Congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of Social Security. Even after President [George W.] Bush stopped pushing for it, Congressman Pence kept pushing for it.

  Tim Kaine

  President, Pushing, Cheerleader

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.

  Michael Hudson

  Income, Three, Cards

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Social Security is a tax.

  Todd Akin

  Social, Taxes, Security

  "GOP Rep. Todd Akin On Social Security: ‘I Don’t Like It’" by Alex Seitz-Wald, thinkprogress.org. March 19, 2011.

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• Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.

  Judy Chu

  Fighting, Cutting, Fire

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• Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Cutting, Benefits, Want

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• Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Medicare And Medicaid, Talking

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Nov 03, 2013

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• Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Drug, Income

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• Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the debate should read this important book.

  Bernie Sanders

  Book, Important, Agendas

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• Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Successful, Government

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• When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Jobs, Cutting

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Feb 10, 2016

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• No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  War, Drug, Matter

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• You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.

  William J. Clinton

  Lasts, Administration, Election

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• You know, and younger people today, you know, they may not have Social Security. They may not have a pension. They may have 17 different jobs. And so they have to be - they have to, you know, establish somewhat of an ownership, you know, mentality.

  Stedman Graham

  Jobs, People, Different

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 22, 2006.

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• From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

  Jose Garces

  Social, Security

  "Jose Garces Celebrates Cinco de Mayo" by Sarah Rosenberg and Tom Mccarthy, abcnews.go.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

  Judd Gregg

  Pay, Social, Program

  "Gregg: U.S Needs To Find The Path To Fiscal Responsibility". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 16, 2010.

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• All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

  Virgil Goode

  House, Pay, Social

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• Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

  Chuck Hagel

  Social, Contracts, Wells

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• Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.

  Janis Ian

  Gay, Rights, People

  "Janis Ian Talks About Her Grammy Nomination and LGBT Issues". Interview with Charlotte Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2013.

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