Rick Hill: “last fall the President said we should set aside 100 percent of social security for social security. I voted to support…”

“last fall the President said we should set aside 100 percent of social security for social security. I voted to support him in that. But in January he stood here at the State of the Union and said, no, we are going to put aside 62 percent for social security. Then in February he submitted a budget that said 57 percent for social security. And then if we look at his proposal, he really sets aside zero for social security. In five months we have gone from 100 percent to 62 percent to 57 percent to zero, and that has been the history of social security. There are a lot of different opinions about how we ought to reform social security, but every single senior that I talked to in Montana says, let us start by stopping the raid on the social security trust fund. There are three ways to do that. One, today, let us support a supplemental that is offset, so we do not raid social security for foreign aid. Let us support the budget, that sets aside 100 percent of social security for social security. Then let us support the social security and Medicare safe deposit box, where there be no more raids, not for tax cuts or spending increases. No more shell games. We are going to save every dollar, 100 percent for social security. We can start today.”