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we don't remember the poorhouse. we don't remember what the world was like before we had social security and medicare. and i'm very -- extremely concerned for the bottom 20% and also concerned we have crisis coming down the road among baby-boom cohorts and people who follow. in many ways that's what we are fighting for, too to make sure we have a retirement system that works for them, and we have people who have lost housing, lost equity, lost pension protection, lost jobs, not seeing their wages increase, moving into retirement, and they don't have a lot of time to make up that, and part of what is happening, i think, being middle class -- middle class implies a sense of security. a sense that you can deal with the difficult times that might happen but still be basically okay. we're squeezing the middle class, and we're shrinking the middle class, pulling that security away, not only from the very poor who never had it, but from the hard-working people, and even the upper middle class. it's a world that we have to d

we don't remember things, we don't remember the poorhouse or with the world was like before we had socialurity medicare and dairy concern about the bottom 20% but i'm also concerned that we have a crisis coming down the road among baby boom coleworts and people who follow in many ways that is what we are fighting for to make sure we have a retirement system that works for them and we have people that have lost housing, lost equity, lost pension protection, lost jobs, have not seen their wages increase moving into retirement and they don't have a lot of time to make up and part of what is happening i think is being middle class it implies a sense of security the sense that you can deal with the difficult times that might happen but still basically be okay. we are squeezing the middle class and shrinking the middle class pulling that security away not only from the very poor who never had but from the hard working people and even the upper middle class it is a world we have to deal with and it's for that reason i'm just pleased to be here, proud to be here because i know you are asking the

we don't remember the poorhouse. we don't remember what the world was like before we had social security and medicare. and i'm very -- extremely concerned for the bottom 20% and also concerned we have crisis coming down the road among baby-boom cohorts and people who follow. in many ways that's what we are fighting for, too to make sure we have a retirement system that works for them, and we have people who have lost housing, lost equity, lost pension protection, lost jobs, not seeing their wages increase, moving into retirement, and they don't have a lot of time to make up that, and part of what is happening, i think, being middle class -- middle class implies a sense of security. a sense that you can deal with the difficult times that might happen but still be basically okay. we're squeezing the middle class, and we're shrinking the middle class, pulling that security away, not only from the very poor who never had it, but from the hard-working people, and even the upper middle class. it's a world that we have to d