Bernie Sanders actually said...

"The single thing they were the most afraid of was the possibility that Social Security benefits would be cut."

"Nobody can say, I believe, with a straight face that that's being done to really improve the accuracy of the COLA for seniors and people with disabilities."

"The alternative, CPI or the chained-CPI or also called the superlative CPI that's being proposed by some members of the supercommittee and has been discussed in the deficit reduction discussions, that..."

"we don't understand how the Government concludes that there has been no inflation in the last 2 years, that we're not getting any COLA"