If we fail to act, we threaten the prosperity of younger generations, a prospect your former boss, President Clinton, said would be horribly wrong and unfair.

Long term, yes. I hear a lot of talk from AARP and others that using chained CPI cuts benefits. Is that true? And I think it does.

Long term, it reduces the Social Security deficit by just 10 percent. It is not immense.

And why is the program more focused on applicants, rather than those already receiving benefits?

I think that is all I want to do at this point.

That has been a problem. As a matter of fact, especially in Puerto Rico.

Fairness and consistency are essential to ensuring America's confidence in Social Security's disability insurance program.

I hope you are right.

As we work to secure the future of this vital program, hard-working taxpayers deserve to know that disability decisions are fair, consistent and protected from con artists trying to cheat the program.

I am as outraged as anyone else to see the program jeopardized by somebody dancing on the Internet.

Or they ignore them.