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On the recordMarch 5, 2024
We are actually going to try three things tonight, and I apologize to anyone who doesn't like math or complexity. Originally, I promised I was going to do something simpler tonight, and let's just say it didn't work out. The three things we are going to try doing this evening: One, I want to spend a few minutes talking about folklore. The things we get as Members of Congress--this is both for the folks on the left and the right--the comments we get, things people believe, and I want to walk through a little bit of that. I want to do sort of an update status on what is happening financially. Then I am going to broach a subject that is really uncomfortable, and that is going to be talking about the future. I am going to talk about fertility rates and what that means to being able to finance Social Security and other things. For anyone who does not like math, please just go watch something on Netflix right now. A couple weeks ago, I did a whole presentation on the work we have done on what it takes financially to save Social Security. One of the things I have been genuinely angry about--and I have been angry about it for years--is the left uses Social Security as a weapon, and our folks are terrified to talk about it because every time we talk about trying to save it, we get attacked. Then my brothers and sisters on the left will say: Just raise the cap. We have shown the math. We had two Ph.D.…
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona

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