Quotes
Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
“Let’s increase Social Security payments, and let’s do it in a way that helps people at the bottom more than those at the top.”
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As you know, it was Democrats of the Clinton administration that began “reforming” Social Security disability, with some ugly consequences. What, in simple language, are the current Dem plans for Social Security disability? The fact that Dems currently stress, not that they will protect Social Security itself, but that they will improve Social Security specifically for retirees, has been causing a lot of anxiety.