I know billions are now kind of chump change, but that is still a big figure.

I ran a business for 37 years, and if we ever had any kind of irregularities that would have been in the category of what you hear here, somebody gets fired.

We can't take the hit here when we are running now $2 trillion deficits, and Social Security is the biggest program we got out there.

Government, you know, where it has gone to. It has got to get back down into where people for basic questions in any government agency don't have to hang on to the phone more than a few minutes at the most.

Under this plan, a typical senior would save about $800 a year on taxes, and this would create real relief for seniors in a time of rising costs and out of control inflation.

We cannot run the biggest business in the world that way.

Sadly, we lack the political will to do anything about it.

We have never in the history of the country raised more than roughly 18 percent of our GDP in Federal revenues.

We can't take the hit here when we are running now $2 trillion deficits, and Social Security is the biggest program we got out there.

We need to pass the Social Security Fairness Act to eliminate these provisions.

As Governor of Nebraska, I recognized that all Social Security benefits should be completely tax free, and that is why I worked hard to pass a historic law that would phaseout the State income tax on Social Security benefits over a period…

Social Security is a vital program for all Americans. We need to be good stewards of its services and benefits.

Sadly, we lack the political will to do anything about it.

The status of Social Security is critical for millions of Americans.

You are really forced to do that as a Mayor, because if you are letting stuff like that go, people will run you down at a ballgame or some other place.

Social security is obviously the bedrock for millions of Americans and was a key part of the first Aging Committee's hearing in 1961.

I know billions are now kind of chump change, but that is still a big figure.

The status of Social Security is critical for millions of Americans.