G.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville: "It's all a scam. This is all a scam. I mean, we got people that's getting ready to retire that's gonna try to live off 2 to $3,000. Impossible. It's impossible."

"Because what happens, it comes up here, we spend it. We're 35,000,000,000,000 in debt. We don't have any of your money. We're dead broke. And then taxpayers have $2,000,000,000,000 in credit card debt."

"We are in huge trouble. And this body, we had better start figuring that out because we're gonna have a run on this city here soon, and there's gonna be about a 50,000,000 people coming up here saying, where's our damn money that we paid in?"

"I could have put my social security money in forty years in tax in in in the market, and probably worth 8 to 10,000,000 today. But the federal government wasted it."