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Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.
One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.
We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.
Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.
Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.
You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.
We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037.
Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.
Bill O'Reilly is a socialist. He is in favor of Medicare, he is in favor of Social Security. Those are socialist programs.
Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.
With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.
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.
There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.
Protecting Medicare and Social Security, health care, workers' rights, and a woman's right to choose remain top priorities for me.
I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment.
No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.
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.
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.
We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.
Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.
Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.
The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.
An Arab who works and pays taxes is good for everyone. An Arab who doesn't work and receives social security stipends is bad for everyone.
I am dedicated to making sure Social Security will be there for future generations and have written legislation to strengthen the program.
Seniors are concerned about Medicare and Social Security. I advocated in Congress a separate and distinct lockbox fund for Social Security.
Public support will dwindle if the public thinks that free movement means undermining of social security systems... we need to get that right.
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.
Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.
Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.
I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics, for Social Security and employment purposes.
The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.
I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.
You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.