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Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even more striking…

— Mike Quigley

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives…

— Anonymous

On aging societies, there is no reason why a country that has a lot of old people can't be prosperous if, during their working…

— Milton Friedman

“Without Social Security, the official U.S. poverty rate among the aged would jump from 9 percent to nearly 50 percent—about the same rate as…

— David Cay Johnston

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

— Michael Moore

There was a time not too long ago when American seniors were too often forced to go without food, medicine, and quality healthcare. But…

— Mike Quigley

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would…

— Steve Israel

“Few societies have come to grips with the new demography. We cling to the notion of retirement at sixty-five—a reasonable notion when those over…

— Atul Gawande

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

— Bernie Sanders

Retirees who are on Medicare will suffer the consequences of 700 billions of Medicare dollars instead being used to cover the skyrocketing cost of…

— Suzanne Somers

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count…

— Barbara Mikulski

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

— Anonymous