Andy Biggs actually said...

the household Social Security income declines sharply at widowhood from between 50 percent for a couple that had equal earnings, to about a ...

Members have an obligation to know the program and to know the data on Americans' retirement savings and retirement incomes.

To keep them from falling into indigence, I guess, would be the word.

People said, people should pay in and would get the money back with some reasonable rate of interest.