“Social Security right now is a collectivist system, it’s a welfare transfer system.”
— Rep. Paul Ryan in a 2005 audio recording talking about privatizing the “socialist-based system” of social security — or as he jokingly said he preferred, “personalizing” it.
Here’s the audio via BuzzFeed:
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