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Johnny Isakson: “Social Security may have been intended as that letter you read from 1935 portended. It may have been intended to be your…”

On the recordMay 20, 2014
Social Security may have been intended as that letter you read from 1935 portended. It may have been intended to be your retirement program, but we all know we cannot afford a program that would be a retirement program in the 21st century.
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Johnny Isakson
Republican · Georgia

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Isakson argues that Social Security needs to adapt to modern financial realities.

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