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Fight we're going to have is defending it against continuing republican efforts to privatize it. >> do you want to expand it? >> i want to enhance the benefits for the poorest recipients of social security. we have a lot of women on social security, particularly widowed and single women who didn't make a lot of money during their careers and they are impoverished and they need more help from the social security system. and i will focus -- i will focus on helping those people who need the most. of course i'm going to defend social security, make for ways to make sure it's solvent in the future....

Defending social security caucus. my view is that when you have millions of seniors in this country trying to get by, and i don't know how they do on $11,000, $12,000, $13,000 a year, you don't cut social security, you expand it. and the way you expand it is by lifting the caps on taxable incomes so you do away with the absurdity of a millionaire paying the same amount into the system as somebody making 118,000. you do that until social security is solvent until -- >> i want to bring it over to carlos lopez. we're obviously in nevada. the highest number of undocumented immigrants. carlos? >> g...

Security, particularly widowed and single women who didn't make a lot of money during their careers and they are impoverished and they need more help from the social security system. and i will focus -- i will focus on helping those people who need the most. i'm going to defend social security, make for ways to make sure it's solvent in the future. we also need to talk about health care. we agree on the goals but disagree on the means. >> some republicans and democrats were talking about cutting social security and benefits for disabled benefits. i founded a caucus called the defending social ...

The most. and, of course i'm going to defend social security and look for ways to try to make sure it's come vent in the future, and we also need to talk about health care at some point. we agree on the goals but disagree on the means. >> we're talking about cutting social security and benefits for disabled veterans for the so-called cpi. i founded a caucus called the defending social security caucus. my view is that when you have millions of seniors in this country trying to get by, and i don't know how they do, on $11,000 a year, you don't cut social security. you expand it. and the way you ...

This president stand up and make it clear he's prepared to take on the big money interests, prepared to take on the multicorporations. those guys are doing phenomenally well. corporate profits soaring, richest people doing better than thaifr ever done while their effective tax rate is the lowest in decades. meanwhile, we have massive unemployment. what the american people want to hear the president say, and he's beginning to say it, is we're going to put people back to work, we're going to ask the wealthiest people in this country to start paying their fair share of taxes. also, i would like t...