03/23/2009
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"Well, actually, we raised the payroll tax in 1983 so that it is now a viable program."
"If Social Security has not contributed one nickel to the deficit, why are we looking at it within the context of deficit reduction?"
"Let us see some political courage there rather than throwing senior citizens off the LIHEAP program or low-income people off of life and death programs for them."
"Real unemployment in America today--I have not heard a word about unemployment yet, by the way--is 16 percent."