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“Social Security right now is a collectivist system, it’s a welfare transfer system.”
– Rep. Paul Ryan in a 2005 audio talking about privatizing the “socialist-based system” or social security, “personalizing” it. (From Buzz feed)
That’s the same Social Security his mother gets a check from each month. Um, he should have mentioned that during his speech at an AARP event Friday, where he was booed from saying Mitt Romney would repeal Obamacare once he become president.
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