Issue Position: Social Security and Medicare

Issue Position

There will be no greater advocate and protector of Social Security than Congressman Marcus Lewis! This "social contract", as President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated, will be off limits to anyone that dares to chip away at this fundamental program that was instituted to guarantee that there would be a check to the American Worker who put in the hard work while young, and had paid into the system that, upon retirement, would then draw out a monthly specified sum, insuring against being impoverished. I will ensure that, as long as I am Congressman, I will be a watchman over this jewel to the seniors of our district, and nation.

Medicare is another wonderful program passed, and signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. He promoted this program because he realized that our senior citizens were in need of basic, quality healthcare, and it was the duty of this great and wealthy nation to provide such care. I want it for all Americans of all ages. It is the mark of a great nation to see to the welfare of its citizens to live decently, in dignity, thus inspiring tranquility amongst ourselves as citizens, to be what we claim to the world we are, as the greatest nation on earth.

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