Harold Volkmer: “I doubt very much if I vote for some of that, especially if I go back to letting the senior citizens work and still draw…”

“I doubt very much if I vote for some of that, especially if I go back to letting the senior citizens work and still draw their Social Security. Not a bad idea. But I will tell you why, the reason the gentleman from New York and the Republicans are proposing it, it is very simple: All you have to do is go back and look at what they are proposing to do in the budget, because they are going to cut Medicare. Senior citizens are going to pay more for their health and hospital bills. Where are they going to get the money? They are not going to get it from Social Security, they will have to go out and work for it. What they are saying is, ``Hey, we are not going to help you anymore because we are going to cut you back and you had better go out and work for that minimum wage in order to pay for your own health care.'' That is what they are saying to you. They are going to make you work in order to get--in order to get paid for what you are now getting paid for.”