“Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.” YearsLittlesSocialSecurityCitizensTaxesIncreaseIncomeFairnessSenatorsEarningSeniorSocial SecurityIncome TaxSenior Citizen Author:William Weld
“Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.” WellsLongDoeImportantFactsFacesSocialTermChallengesSupportClearSecurityCitizensProgramWell BeingLong TermStabilitySeniorSocial SecurityCrystalsCornerstonesSenior Citizen Author:Bill Frist
“Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.” LinesPartyGenerationsSecurityCommitmentDignitySenior Author:Tom Rooney
“Senior members of the security establishment have not been entirely cooperative - let's put it that way - with the operations and still maintain contacts with FDLR leadership.” WayStillsLeadershipSecurityMembersContactOperationsEstablishmentSeniorCooperatives Author:Jason Stearns
“One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis Leave the bullshit in Cambridge.” NextBitsAdviceSecurityCrisisFinalsBullshitNext TimeSeniorNational SecurityCiaAdministratorsCambridge Author:Dan Brown
“If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.” IfsKnowsWayTryingAsksClassCuttingMiddleAchieveSecurityBearsTaxesBenefitsPrivilegeBurdenReformFortunateMiddle ClassSustainabilitySeniorNational SecurityRevenueTax Reform Author:Timothy Geithner
“Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.” SocialSecurityDependsDrugThirdsIncomeSeniorSocial SecurityPrescriptionsPrescription Drugs Author:Bernie Sanders
“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.” JobsSocialCuttingSecurityMonthsCitizensBenefitsThirdsAverageIncomeRelySeniorSocial SecuritySenior Citizen Author:Bernie Sanders
“Entitlements is not sic the issue. And if so, cool heads can sit down and engage the American people and tell us how many seniors in nursing homes do we want to throw out in the street? ... And then who wants to make a fuss about Medicare when it's solvent until 2024? ... Who wants to make a fuss about Social Security when it's solvent - and it's about, 'You earned it'?” PeopleIfsWantHomeSocialIssuesStreetsSecurityDown AndSeniorSocial SecurityNursingEntitlementMedicareNursing Home Author:Sheila Jackson Lee
“We need to preserve programs like Social Security and Medicare for our seniors of today and tomorrow. But we need to strengthen both Social Security and Medicare to make sure these programs are still available for future generations.” NeedsStillsTodaySocialGenerationsSecurityTomorrowProgramAvailablePreservesSeniorSocial SecurityFuture GenerationMedicareToday And Tomorrow Author:Joni Ernst
“I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.” ThinkingWantYearsFactsSocialSecurityCitizensDignityDifficultyFirmRetiringSeniorSocial SecurityOpen MindedSenior CitizenDignity And Respect Author:Barack Obama
“I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security. But I think for some seniors, they remember the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. They conflated the term "democratic socialism" with communism.” ThinkingRememberFightingEvilSocialTermEffortRecordsCuttingSecurityCitizensUnionsDemocraticSocialismCommunismEmpiresStrongestSovietSeniorSoviet UnionSocial SecuritySenior CitizenDemocratic Socialism Author:Bernie Sanders