“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordMarch 16, 1994
I wanted to at least address the Social Security thing which is already getting out of hand, the rumor that somehow Social Security is going to be destroyed. The facts are that we are already camouflaging, masking the budget. For instance, the deficit is supposed to be $223 billion this year. The Federal funds deficit is $336 billion. That is $113 billion more than the stated debt and that includes Social Security surpluses, as well as 149 other surpluses. The idea that balancing the budget actually saves Social Security and, if this House of Representatives wants to destroy Social Security, they can do so by vote, I am not going to do that. And I do not plan on it.
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Robert Smith
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Addressing concerns about Social Security during a discussion on the federal budget.

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