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Bernie Sanders: “The truth is that well over 99% of Social Security checks…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Published | Video Starts at 45:15

And if you do that, what is the end result? The privatization of everything. You're going to give all this stuff over to large corporations. So the truth is. The truth is that well over 99% of Social Security checks are going out. To the people who earned those checks. 70 million people. And nobody who is 150 or 200 gets a Social Security check. Absolute lie. (45:15–45:24)

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Asserts that over 99% of Social Security checks are being distributed correctly.

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