Harry Reid: “I can remember as a little boy my grandmother getting what she referred to as her old-age pension check. That is what…”

“I can remember as a little boy my grandmother getting what she referred to as her old-age pension check. That is what she called it. We have refined the name. That is not politically correct anymore. We now refer to someone receiving a Social Security check. The Social Security check my grandmother received gave her dignity. She had eight children. The children helped her, but my grandmother, a proud widow, did not want to feel dependent on people, even her own children. I repeat, that old-age pension check gave her dignity. It gave her independence. She had money of her own that she could spend. She was unable to work. My grandmother, for all the time I remember her, could not walk very well. She was very heavy and did not move around very well. But that check still gave her the ability to feel free to do things on her own. Social Security is the most important, the most successful social program in the history of the world. There has never been a program that has worked as well as Social Security.”