I think we put a heck of a burden on the private sector and walked away from it.
But, by the same token, I know that at some point we run out of the ability to fund all those things.
Private sponsor of traditional pension plans must fund their plans using an average, high-quality corporate bond rate...
I think sometimes we forget, it is not the government that provides one single penny to run this machine.
There's an old adage about don't worry about the mule, just load the wagon.
We have gone so far away from what this--how it works. It just drives me nuts.
If this isn't a crisis, we had better look up in the dictionary what a crisis is.
We do have problems that need to be worked on... not trying to figure out how to whip up everybody into some fear positi...
My constituents want a Social Security office that is open.
We should be ashamed of ourselves if we are frightening senior citizens.
This is not a Republican and Democrat. This is an American problem.