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Bernie Sanders: Yet the Peterson Foundation and a host of other mostly well-off experts have managed to convince much of the media and…

On the recordOctober 6, 2010
Yet the Peterson Foundation and a host of other mostly well-off experts have managed to convince much of the media and many Washington policymakers that the way to save Social Security benefits is to cut them.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders criticizes the notion that cutting Social Security is a solution.

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