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Bernie Sanders: “These attacks on Social Security are part of that same effort by Wall Street and some other special interests now, who…”

On the recordOctober 6, 2010
These attacks on Social Security are part of that same effort by Wall Street and some other special interests now, who apparently are extremely unhappy that we have a Federal program that has worked enormously successfully for the last 75 years, and they want to destroy it.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Wall Street is trying to undermine successful Social Security programs.

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