credit unions were never intended to be simply alternative, tax-exempt commercial banks.
Let's deal with first things first.
We shouldn't abandon a basic program that has been one of America's greatest successes.
I want a guaranteed benefit.
Today, 44 million Americans depend on Social Security.
We have to act now rather than later.
We should set aside every penny of any surplus until we save Social Security first.
Social Security is responsible for lifting about half the American senior population out of poverty.
Is there a safer way to do that?
Fiscal responsibility gave us our strong economy.
Anything we do to strengthen Social Security now must maintain our hard-won fiscal discipline.
Social Security has been far more than an ID number on a tax form.
We know the problem.
If there is going to be a risk taken, I'd rather take it than have the Government take it for me.
Social Security must provide a benefit people can count on.
We must act and act now to save Social Security.
I think you have to look at it like that.
It is hereby ordered that the second sentence of both section 2(d)(1) of Executive Order 13061 and of section 2(a) of Executive Order 13080 ...
