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David Schweikert: “If you're under 30 years old right now, under 35, actually…”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Congressman David Schweikert on political future, the numbers behind Social Security and Medicare

Published | Video Starts at 06:45

If it's nine years from now the Social Security trust fund is empty and you double senior poverty, the average couple takes a 25% cut in their check. That's immoral. If you're under 30 years old right now, under 35, actually, the math says you will not live as prosperous as you and I have. that's in immoral. But it's not only I not only try to walk through my fixation on debt and deficits and what's going on, but what drives it and that there's actual solutions, there are ways to make it work. (06:45–06:57)

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Asserts that individuals under 35 will not live as prosperously as previous generations.

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