While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

We don`t charge people for making a mistake or doing something foolish.

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.