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On the recordJuly 21, 2011
If the Senator will yield again, imagine what would have happened in 2003 and 2004 with the Senator in the Senate and a lot of people all over the country--including a lot of Republicans all over the country, but not elected Republicans, when we were fighting the privatization of Social Security in 2004 and 2005--imagine what would have happened if so much of Social Security had been turned over to Wall Street. Imagine what would have happened if, in 2005, people would have put all this money in Wall Street instead of their secure lockbox, if you will, the Social Security fund, where nobody is missing Social Security payments and people know what they are going to get. It is predictable, it is always there and always will be. If we put it in these private accounts, there goes the predictability and there goes the solidness of Social Security, right?
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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