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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 06:12 PM
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Reid: ‘Leave Social Security alone’
Edited on Wed Mar-16-11 06:19 PM by cal04
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/150279-reid-leave-social-security-alone

The Senate's top Democrat said he's open to changing Social Security — 20 years from now.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) emphatically rejected changes to Social Security that would improve the entitlement program's solvency, jesting that he'd be willing to revisit the program's structure in two decades, once it's projected to become insolvent.

"Two decades from now, I'm willing to take a look at it," said Reid, 71, in an interview to air Wednesday evening on MSNBC. "But I'm not willing to take a look at it right now."

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"So what I've said, if we want to look at something to take care of the out years, let's do it at the right time," he said. "It is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not."
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 06:14 PM
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1. Love it
And indeed he speaks factoid.
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 06:40 PM
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2. Obama better find a way to shut Reid up and quick.
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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-11 05:36 AM
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3. Lawrence interviews Harry Reid - Full video
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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-11 05:41 AM
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4. What's that i hear? A democrat speaking out? This must be a dream. n/t
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