The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

This is a problem. This is a major problem.

The magnitude for trying to create an administrative system and make it functional for 140 million people (in Social Security) could be done, but it will take years. The federal thrift program is having problems and that's a lot fewer people.