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Janice Schakowsky: Here's Lloyd Blankfein, and he's just one example, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, and part of what I really resent about it…

On the recordNovember 29, 2012
Here's Lloyd Blankfein, and he's just one example, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, and part of what I really resent about it is he doesn't even know what he's talking about. He says: You can look at the history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career. Well, first of all, the average beneficiary collects about 16 years, so a 30-year retirement after 25 years?
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois
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Nov 29, 2012

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