MSNBC news programs: on Social Security
Pat Buchanan:
Address solvency first, before adding new programs
Q: How would you save Social Security? A: Before you add anything to it, we ought to make it solvent. That means way out, 50 years into the future, and there's got to be some bullets that have to be bitten there. And before you add drugs or prescription
drugs, we've got to make sure that [Medicare] is solvent way out into the future, like Social Security. Than you and I can argue about whether we should add something new, or not add something new.
Source: Interview on MSNBC's "Equal Time" on 2000 election
Nov 2, 1999
Pat Buchanan:
Option for private investment, with public fall-back
[There should be] an option to privatize part of Social Security, as long as the individual is willing to take the risk, especially for younger people. You [need to have] some kind of fall back, because quite frankly, [for the situation where] some
guy goes out and says, look, I blew it all. You know what the government's going to do. Well, we'll take care of you. Some provision in there you ought to be taking a look.
Source: Interview on MSNBC's "Equal Time" on 2000 election
Nov 2, 1999
Pat Buchanan:
Let people who work past 65 collect benefits
Q: Would you raise the retirement age?
A: I'm open to [the idea of raising it]. But the idea that people are told when you're 65, the only way you get Social Security when you've invested for 45 years, is if you quit work-that's outrageous! If a fellow
wants to keep working all his life, he should get his Social Security; if he retired he should get his Social Security. Why do we punish folks who, at 65 and 66, in their prime, and they want to keep working?
Source: Interview on MSNBC's "Equal Time" on 2000 election
Nov 2, 1999
Rick Perry:
FactCheck: Softened "fraud" rhetoric in current campaign
Rick Perry 1.0 thought Social Security was a "disease" inflicted on the population by the federal government. Rick Perry 2.0 thinks Social Security deserves being saved "for generations to come." Mitt Romney said in the debate, "In writing his book,
Gov. Perry pointed out that in his view that Social Security is unconstitutional, that this is not something the federal government ought to be involved in."THE FACTS: Perry indeed roundly criticized Social
Security in his book, but not quite to the point of calling it unconstitutional. Perry branded the program the "best example" of the "fraud" and "bad disease" spread by Washington in Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
Perry now has abandoned such rhetoric, adopting the conventional Republican view in a USA Today column Monday that its finances must be made whole to protect current and imminent retirees and make it viable for "generations to come."
Source: MSNBC FactCheck on 2011 GOP debate in Simi Valley CA
Sep 7, 2011
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