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
So, very specifically, what you're saying is that many more seniors are now taking Social Security at 62 at 25 percent less benefits than wa...
I do think that cutting Social Security--that Social Security has had nothing to do with our deficit.
it is very easy to get up on the floor of the Senate and to announce how you are in favor of cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, cutt...
This country, I think we all know, is in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
if those programs were cut it would be devastating for people who are just right now living on the edge?
It's bad policy. It's also terrible public relations. Social Security is a promise.
We are squeezing the middle class and we are shrinking the middle class, pulling that security away not only from the very poor who never ha...
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 wit...
When I read that on average people in the bottom 20 percent quintile are living on $7,500 a year, that is almost beyond comprehension.
Thank you, Senator Franken, for all the work you're doing for seniors and for your contributions today.