“Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.” UsedPowerfulMinutesSafeProgramAccountsSecureSavingMost PowerfulRetirementSeniorSavingsBankruptcySavings Accounts Author:Bill Frist
“I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.” IfsNeedsWellsLooksTodayAbleLastsSocialDifficultSecurityProgramRetirementSocial SecurityDifficult TimesGreat Depression Author:Chris Matthews
“Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.” PeopleShouldAmericaNextSpaceStepsProgramDown AndPlanningEvolveRetirementPreparingNext StepsSpace ShuttleShuttle Program Author:Buzz Aldrin
“If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare.” IfsWantSocialPayTalkingSecurityProgramDollarsCongressBillionsMessRetirementSocial SecurityObamacareMedicare Author:Mike Huckabee
“I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor, I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.” StatesProgramCongressRetirementDisagreeGovernors Author:Chris Christie
“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.” PeopleNeedsWritingSeemsSchoolLevelsKnownClassPlansMiddlePolicyProducePoliticianBenefitsProgramBlindSpotsExcellentMiddle ClassRetirementUrgentSalaryEditsNanniesBlind SpotsHealth BenefitsUpper Middle Class Author:Judith Warner
“Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.” ThinkingIndividualSocialSecurityProgramSelfishnessRetirementSeniorMisunderstandingSocial SecurityElderly Author:Richard Lamm
“So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.” PeopleWantKindPresidentCuttingEconomicTaxesBenefitsHappeningsEuropeProgramRetirementPresident ObamaEnteringRecessionsHealth BenefitsRaising Taxes Author:Paul Ryan
“The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…they don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.” IfsLooksDifferentStatesSituationGoneGrowingModernSecurityProgramChinaWelfareRetirementStampsWelfare StateFood StampsGreat SocietyLbj Author:Michele Bachmann