for every dollar spent on the Meals on Wheels program, we save $50 in Medicare costs.

If instead of spending $800 million on the congregate meals programs, we doubled that to $1.6 million, can you just speak very briefly to the question of both how many people would be helped and how much money we would save doing that?

this is not a subsidy. This is money people earned, and it's just trying to help them get the money they earned.

this is also a profound moral question, a question about helping people retain their independence.

Social Security provides a safety net to keep people out of poverty, but it's a very modest safety net.

Did the U.S. Government agree to provide some kind of minimum float here?

I just want to express my concerns about that.

So these were additional requirements, $30 million worth of additional requirements?

So, if we could, I would like to go back to the Comerica contract for Direct Express, Secretary Gregg, that the Chairman raised earlier.

I cannot understand--I understand they are handling more cards, but they are also getting more revenues in the way that they design the revenues.

If we can reduce fraud by getting some increased percentage of people to say, no, this is not accurate, then we have not only saved a lot of money, we may shut down some criminal activity, but we have also saved a lot of heartache.