Jack Kingston: “What is it that the President wants to do with 38 percent of the Social Security funds? There is a surplus in Social…”

“What is it that the President wants to do with 38 percent of the Social Security funds? There is a surplus in Social Security. The President is supporting taking 38 percent of that money and spending it on non-Social Security programs. One of those programs is to expand AmeriCorps. AmeriCorps is a program that pays a lot of little yuppie college kids to do volunteer work and get paid for the volunteer work. They were doing it for free. The President, if an upper middle class family, the President is going to pay them. Might be a good program if they are a Democrat. I do not know. It does not make much sense to me in the real world. But I do not want my grandmother's retirement money going into that, and the President is going to say, 'I want 38 percent of your Social Security money, grandmother, and we're going to spend it on other programs.' That is wrong, Mr. President, and I hope the Democrats will join me in saying let us preserve and protect Social Security and only use the money for Social Security.”