John Shaw: “I was speaking to a reporter the other day. I could tell from her voice that she was certainly a lot younger than I am.…”

“I was speaking to a reporter the other day. I could tell from her voice that she was certainly a lot younger than I am. We were talking about the Social Security and what was happening to it. And I said, Would you go to work for this newspaper if during the interview they said you are going to work about one and a half months a year to pay into the retirement funds but yet it is not going to be there for you? And she said no. Then I asked her the question, Do you think Social Security is going to be there for you? She said no. That does not have to be the answer. The problem that we have today is that the young people are just not focusing. I am looking at some of the pages sitting here on the floor this afternoon. Retirement is the furthest thing from their minds. But when you start explaining to them that you are going to work a month and a half a year to pay for my retirement, then they say, well, wait a minute, what about mine? And this is what we have to think about. If we care about our kids, if we care about our grandkids, if we care about the legacy that this Congress is going to leave to the United States, it is time that we start focusing on this problem. And the idea of doing nothing and bringing up these terrible deficits, this is unthinkable because this is an economy that cannot sustain itself with this type of a, with a deficit. But this is the answer for doing nothing.”