How many years does my colleague think it would take to eat up all the surplus and be right there ready to use the Social Security surplus if we increased that spending 14 percent a year for the next few years? How many years?
Questioning the impact of increased spending on the Social Security surplus.
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I think you raise a good point. We have to be careful about the issue you raised. It is a serious one.
We may not know all the answers that you seek of us because we did not have a lot of time to study in detail the more intricate health care issues.
It is clear from this example that good things can happen when we open up more areas for drilling in a responsible manner.
That did not reduce any beneficiaries' benefits, it just cut the amounts that providers were otherwise getting.