Social Security

"I love it when congressmen with socialized health care warn the rest of us of the evils of socialized health care." —John Fugelsang

Cenk Uygur, political reporter Joe Williams, Yahoo! News senior editor Beth Fouhy and The Nation contributing writer Lee Fang talk about President Obama's budget plan, which includes cuts to Social Security through a chained CPI.

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“The president has offered something up — in return for nothing.” —Rep. Alan Grayson

“If you [took] everybody who earns more than $1 million and calculated their Social Security benefits, it comes to about 14 hundredths of a percent of the money that’s laid out.” —Michael Hiltzik

"Some of the people who told you how necessary the Iraq War was — both in politics and media — are now telling you how necessary austerity is." —John Fugelsang

"This terrible preoccupation with austerity, with deficits, with debt is mistaken." —Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla.

The GOP is "wedded to their Republican, supply-side, trickle-down orthodoxy that has been shown again and again not to work." —Robert Reich

"Say Anything!" host Joy Behar, Sam Seder, Armstrong Williams and Rebecca Dana analyze John McCain's recent town hall spat, in which an angry citizen confronted him over his stance on immigration.

"Framing the issue is very important around jobs and the economy, but coming up with specific programs that the Republicans will agree to seems to me almost impossible in this environment." —Robert Reich