Kendrick Meek: “Once again, there is no plan. It is almost like saying I want to build a house but we do not have a blueprint, but we…”

“Once again, there is no plan. It is almost like saying I want to build a house but we do not have a blueprint, but we are going to build it and we are going to build it on philosophy and we are going to build it on what we may put out as guiding principles. I do not know if you heard us a little earlier, but at the top of this hour we talked about the majority side are saying, well, you are saying that we need to do something about Social Security, but where is your plan? The same thing, where is their plan? I mean, the President came into this Chamber there at that podium and said there was a state of emergency, urgency, about dealing with Social Security. This is not the Weiner-Ryan-Meek report saying that Social Security will be solvent for years. They made the tough decisions back when Reagan and Tip O'Neill was running this House, this House and even the leadership in the other body. So it is important that we come clean with the American people. If we can, I know that we have some e-mails that some folks sent to us, but we have to make sure that we are asking that the American people and also that Members of Congress are even asking some of the tough questions of the administration. I want to commend especially some of our colleagues on the other side that have said I am not comfortable with this guiding principle thing; I am not comfortable with the fact that people may lose benefits or will lose benefits under these private accounts.”