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John McCain: Town Hall 08/12/08

2008-08-19T18:44:39Z

John McCain
Town Hall
York, PA 08/12/08

TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTIOENER: I actually have two questions, the first question is, as a young, hardworking American, I am actually paying in to a Social Security system that I'm not going to reap the benefits from. [applause] What is your proposal to help young Americans, like myself, who are paying into a system but are probably not going to get the benefits as the system is now?

JOHN MCCAIN: Thank you. I should've recognized the guy behind you. [laughter] Let, let, let me just say to you: you are exactly right. And, as I said, sometimes we have to have straight talk in America. The Social Security benefits that are presently there for present day retirees will not be there when you retire, if we don't fix the system. [applause] And, my friends, that's just a fact. And we have to face up to it and we have to face up to our obligation. Not just to present generations of retirees but future generations. If there's ever a compelling argument for Republican and Democrat to sit down and work on this issue, it is the issue of Social Security. Why should we lay a multi-trillion dollar debt on this young American and the other young people in this audience? [applause] Why should we do that? Why should we do that? So, let me, let me if I could, just remind you, you know, Tom and I came to congress together. And, I was proud to make the friendship of the only other Viet Nam veteran in our incoming class. In case you didn—many of you don't remember, he graduated from Harvard and easily could've gotten a deferment. But instead, he chose to go as an enlisted person and fight in the war in Viet Nam. [applause] And, when we came, when we first, and when we first came to congress together, Social Security was on the brink of bankruptcy. It was about to go broke. I mean it was out of money. So what happened? Tip O'Neil, the speaker of the house, the liberal Democrat from Massachusetts and Ronald Reagan, the, uh, conservative from California, came together, armed with a study by Alan Greenspan, and they walked outside and stood in the Rose Garden together and said, "We're going to work together and fix Social Security." And they did for about 25 or 30 years. My friends, we have an example of what needs to be done. It's not going to be invented by me and Joe Lieberman, it's going to something that the Americans want us to badly do. And I'm going to tell you, my young friend, I understand my obligation to you and your generation. I understand it so well that I believe it's a major and compelling reason for me to be President of the United States and we will fix Social Security and we'll do it in a bipartisan fashion.

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