But the American people support Social Security and Medicare, and they support an economy that creates jobs for ordinary workers.
It is, therefore, not surprising that American workers perceive Social Security as a public retirement plan they pay into each and every payday.
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One RAND study suggested that Social Security depresses the American fertility rate by as much as 0.5.
To some 36 million people, nearly one American in every six, the Social Security system now provides a monthly check promising that old age, widowhood or disabling injury will not throw them into poverty.
The American people rightly rejected the notion that social security should be a savings plan rather than an insurance plan.
Do you really think the American middle class should give up health care (Medicare) and (Social Security) income in retirement already funded with a lifetime of FICA payroll savings by millions of American employers and hundreds of millions of Americans employees to give them more tax cuts?
In 1981, the South American nation of Chile, then with a Social Security system just like ours, with the same problems, adopted a personal account option similar to Ryan-Sununu, with astounding success.
You defend it by pointing out that the average American lifespan has lengthened considerably in the years since Social Security was enacted in the 1930s.
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At the South Carolina debate on Monday, Newt Gingrich stoutly supported empowering younger workers with a personal account option for Social Security, as in the South American nation of Chile, or for local government workers right here in the U.S. in Galveston, Texas, for the last 30 years.
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He certainly believes that programs like Social Security and Medicare -- that every American who works, contributes to -- are beneficial for the entire society.
We should make the Social Security system a source of ownership for the American people.
The greying will change American politics once ageing baby-boomers begin draining government pensions (Social Security) and health care (Medicare) and adding to the tax burden on younger Americans.
He understood it to be an appealing platform to the American people writ large, including of course economic, social and national security conservatives and the rest of his Republican Party.
Through CARSI, the U.S. Government provides equipment, training, and technical assistance to support immediate law enforcement and interdiction operations, as well as strengthen the capacities of Central American governmental institutions to address security challenges and the underlying economic and social conditions that contribute to them.
Medicare and Social Security are typically viewed as the "third rail" of American politics, and presidential candidates have historically shied away from proposing sweeping changes to these programs.
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By the 1980s, Social Security would be considered to be the "third rail" in American politics -- touch the benefits and you die.
The House Republicans made a decision to back away from the kind of brinksmanship that was very concerning to the markets, very concerning to business, very concerning to the American people -- the simple proposition that they would insist on cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, in return for doing their job, paying their bills.
Never once during those episodes has the United States defaulted on interest payments on the national debt nor has it had to suspend or reduce Social Security payments, although the prospect of both calamities occurring is always used to scare the American public into supporting an unconditional increase in the debt limit fairly quickly after the debt ceiling is reached.
But privacy activists see letting police use DNA information without a warrant or a conviction as another loss for American privacy, with Americans' genetic information held by the government eventually being used for other purposes, just as Social Security numbers were originally not intended to be used for identification.
The book includes 46 policy proposals, some of which even The Wall Street Journal favors: an immigration system that welcomes high-skilled workers, raising the Social Security retirement age, giving U.S. companies tax credits when they use funds to create American jobs, and a proposal to bring the corporate tax rate down to 28% from 35%.
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