Bill Clinton: Social Security in Crisis

From a Talon News article today comes this February 9, 1998 quote from then-President Bill Clinton:

[I]f you don’t do anything [with Social Security], one of two things will happen. Either it will go broke and you won’t ever get it, or if we wait too long to fix it, the burden on society … of taking care of our generation’s Social Security obligations will lower your income and lower your ability to take care of your children to a degree that most of us who are parents think would be horribly wrong and unfair to you and unfair to the future prospects of the United States.



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