It is already paying more out in benefits than it is taking in the payroll tax.
I think you all realize that without Presidential leadership, we cannot do big things in this country.
It starts with agreement. It starts with agreeing on the figures.
You want an example of demagoguery? Paul Ryan puts forward a proposal on Medicare.
We do not have a 10-year budget window problem. We have a 30-year demographic problem.
The first decade, CBO estimates about $9 trillion of deficit.
The entire net private asset base of America is $110 trillion.
The problem is, a U.S. Government bond is a liability to the Treasury.
We have done about 81 percent of Simpson-Bowles.
I actually decided I could afford to leave my business and run for the U.S. Senate.
we first have to lead by telling the truth and laying out the realities.
How about we incentivize and celebrate success rather than demonize and demagogue against it.
Our mission statement to enhance the economic and national security of America.
please work with me, work with this Committee to lay out the reality and have the courage, give us the courage as electe...
if every Presidential candidate, both Republican and Democrat, were forced to address the issues we are going to raise i...
you cannot take it off the table. You have to address it or we are going to be hitting something that the American peopl...
But if understand it right, local governments aren't under some of the same things that you are under and some of these ...
So let me try to follow up on Mr. Salmon and Mr. Polis' question.
