Kent Conrad: “My view was a double. If we put money in a school budget for school construction, first off, it gets distributed down at…”

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.

I do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.

It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.

I wish I could look you in the eye and say, you know, if we just had the will, we could reverse this, and we could go back to a time when defined benefit plans were on the increase. I do not think that is in the cards.