Pelosi: Deficit reduction and Social Security ‘apples and oranges’
OPS_admin | Jul 25, 2010 | Comments 0
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unambiguously said Saturday she opposes raising retirement age and rebuffed propositions to cut Social Security benefits as a way of reducing the deficit.
“Yes,” she told a large gathering of media and liberal activists at the Netroots Nation conference, when asked point blank if she’s against the idea.
“When you talk about reducing the deficit and Social Security, you’re talking about apples and oranges,” Pelosi (D-CA) said. “To change Social Security in order to balance the budget, they aren’t the same thing in my view.”
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