Political Quotes

“This means then that Congress does not have the option of later excluding Social Security in implementation language. We simply do not have it. Therefore, unless Congress enacts this amendment, Social Security funds will be used to balance the budget. No other way around it. No talk is going to change it. No pounding the breast is going to change it. No vows taken with blood or wine or anything else is going to change it. It will be enshrined in the Constitution of the United States and $3 trillion of money paid in FICA taxes by young people in this country, working men and women, will be used to pay for agriculture, to pay for HUD, to pay for education, to pay for this highway project or that highway project. I believe that is violative of a public trust, and I believe that what this amendment is all about should not be to gut Social Security, and that is exactly what we would be doing, if we don't exclude Social Security. So we have taken care of that argument. Congress does not have the option of later excluding Social Security in implementation language. It is very clear. A vote for a balanced budget amendment that does not have this amendment in it is clearly a vote that puts Social Security on budget and takes its surplus.”