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Here is Colbert's stance on social security and senior citizens:




MR. RUSSERT: You know, if you look at the voting blocks that exist in South Carolina and around the country ...I’m quite surprised the way you treat them in this book.

MR. COLBERT: What do you mean?

MR. RUSSERT: Senior citizens? This is what you call them, old people.



“Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don’t just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts?”

MR. COLBERT: Well, Tim, I, I just don’t understand pensions or Social Security. Why do you get paid after you stop working? That doesn’t make any sense to me.

MR. RUSSERT: Abolish Social Security?

MR. COLBERT: Yes.

MR. RUSSERT: Abolish Medicare?

MR. COLBERT: Yes.

MR. RUSSERT: Abolish all pensions?

MR. COLBERT: Abolish tipping waiters and waitresses because I’ve gotten my food. They get paid by the hour. Why am I giving them extra money? That’s all pensions and Social Security are. It’s a tip at the end of your life.


MR. RUSSERT: Senior voters gone.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21407008/page/4/