The people who support Mr. Curbelo’s campaign are people who oppose Medicare and Social Security, want to reform it to take it away from our seniors, and oppose a minimum wage.
Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.
What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.
You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to.
Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.
Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.
We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.
Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.
Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.
Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics, for Social Security and employment purposes.
Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.
My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children’s education.
We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there’s something in the future for our younger workers. And we’re not about to do a welfare program.
