Anything we do to strengthen Social Security now must maintain our hard-won fiscal discipline.
We know the problem.
If there is going to be a risk taken, I'd rather take it than have the Government take it for me.
We must maintain our hard-won fiscal discipline in anything that we do.
We shouldn't abandon a basic program that has been one of America's greatest successes.
We must act and act now to save Social Security.
I think you have to look at it like that.
Social Security is responsible for lifting about half the American senior population out of poverty.
Let's deal with first things first.
Social Security must provide a benefit people can count on.
You should all feel some sense of personal responsibility for the buoyant economy, for the lessening social problems of ...