Political Quotes

“The disability benefit program was put in place under President Eisenhower with a payroll contribution and a trust fund. That trust fund will be exhausted next year, and we will have to move some of the surplus from the old age and survivors insurance over. These are decimal points we move back and forth from time to time. There is no problem of the trust funds as a whole. They are in good shape. The disability payments grew at a fast rate in the sixties when it became known about, and obviously there has been another spurt. I can say the methadone example is a perfectly good one. Methadone is a treatment developed by Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander at Rockefeller University. It uses a pain killer developed in Germany in World War II when opiants were not available. While it ends a craving for opium, there is no pleasure in it, you might say. Obviously, when you have money, you slip off, and such like. The SSI, supplemental security income, was the one in 1970. In 1969 President Nixon proposed the family assistance plan that would take all of those aspects of Social Security which were not covered by the trust fund, aid to families with dependent children, aid to permanently and totally disabled, aid to the blind, and old age assistance--these are meant to be transitional programs until Social Security covered everybody--it took them and covered them.”