Jacob J. Lew: “I don't think there is an urgent crisis. I don't think Americans should worry that their Social Security won't be there.”

I totally agree, and I was trying to indicate in my response earlier that the risk is being borne by taxpayers on an ongoing basis and the conservatorship is not over.

I have been trying to deal with it as a crisis that we need to deal with on a bipartisan basis.

I totally agree with you, we should be able to put more resources into working on identifying the sources of the tax gap.

I have always thought that the sooner we could have a bipartisan conversation on dealing with Social Security, the better.