Bill Cassidy, M.D.: “Social Security is an American promise, and Congress seems unmotivated or unwilling to do the hard work required to keep…”

People are objecting to doing their job. They can offer their own proposal. That’s what’s frustrating. Congress needs to get down to work. Congress needs to fix Social Security this year.

The political system should serve the people, not be designed so that the people serve politicians. Forty-five percent of the American electorate are Independents. Some Republicans and some Democrats want to vote for the person not for the…

What I am suggesting is we set up an investment fund. You called it a sovereign wealth fund. You could call it the nation’s 401k, and you set it up, separate from the Social Security Trust Fund, you put money in it, and you allow it to…

I’d want them to understand that we need to act. The idea that if we do nothing means that nothing bad happens is false.