Jack Kingston: “My dad is 82 years old. He is legally blind. He has diabetes. His Social Security is very important to him. But the…”

“My dad is 82 years old. He is legally blind. He has diabetes. His Social Security is very important to him. But the other thing is he has saved all his life. Now, it is popular now with the environmentalists to say, when one is brushing one's teeth, turn off the water. Well, we did that on Plum Nelly Road in Athens, Georgia, because my dad thought it was a waste of water for one to run it one more drop than necessary. If one ever left the room and the light was on, one was in trouble. My dad never bought a car that had a radio in it. When one had to buy the radio, he sure never had an FM, it was only an AM radio. He never had white wall tires on the car and never had power steering. He fought, as did so many in that World War II generation, to save their money to get ready for a rainy day. That is all we are saying on Social Security is save it for its intended purpose of retirement.”