Luther, your logic is
correct, your facts are correct, but you conclusions are wrong. Now,
I'll tell you why. That account is not useless. That account is not
to determine how much should be paid out and to control what should
be paid out. That account is there so those sons of bitches up on the
Hill can't ever abandon this system when I'm gone.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
talking to adviser Luther Gulick on Social Security
There is a commitment
for maintaining this program because we can't give out support [for
the aged] one year and not the next year. Of course, we depend on the
Congressmen. If they decide for any reason that this program won't be
part of the budget then we would have the Zócalo full with people.
We are not taking [the pensions] away and if the Asamblea wants to
take them away it's going to have trouble.
Asa
Cristina Laurell, Secretary of Health for Mexico City (2000
– 2006) talking to a reporter about the Universal Pension.