“The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.”
Neal Boortz
“They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.”
George W. Bush
“I will vote against any bill that takes Social Security tax dollars and diverts them to any other purpose than Social Security benefits.”
Rob Simmons
“Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.”
Sue Kelly
“Americans United to Protect Social Security - which successfully mobilized to stop Bush's Wall Street Social Security plan - grew directly out of our work to build a nationwide activist coalition to oppose Social Security privatization. This new campaign, organized with a broader issue mandate, will build on and amplify the work of the Campaign for America's Future and many other groups around the issues of cleaning up corruption in government; health care; energy independence and the other 'kitchen table' economic issues Americans care about.”
Roger Hickey
“Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.”
Norm Coleman
“We want to ... begin to solve the Social Security problem for three generations and also help American families today to get some of their money back, and that's precisely what our plan will do, and I think the American people will embrace it.”
John Kasich
