Mark Kennedy: “Yes, our priorities include making sure that Social Security is secure for all generations and that we preserve Medicare…”

“Yes, our priorities include making sure that Social Security is secure for all generations and that we preserve Medicare and add prescription drug coverage. But my responsibilities also include, and my priorities include, families and keeping them strong as the bulwark of America. When we do that, the big fear that I have is that my children, when they come to me later on and they decide that they have found someone they want to spend the rest of their life with, because I have taught them about fiscal responsibility, they will say to me, dad, I can save $1,400 if we just live together and do not get married, and we can use this $1,400 a year on all kinds of good and wonderful things, because I have taught them to be fiscally responsible. That is not a question I want to have. We have to take care of Social Security and Medicare. We should not be doing that on the backs of American families. This is not about whether we are spending Social Security; this is about whether we value and put a priority on families as the basis of our American life.”