you are creating a situation which is probably untenable for our children because of the size of that debt
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Kent Conrad warns about the unsustainable debt burden on future generations.
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We had literally hundreds of people and groups come before this commission. We listened intently for all sides on how we could fix these challenges.
It was incredibly important that we not only made Social Security solvent, but we lifted the bottom 20 percent dramatically.
You know, we did have discussions. One of the things on this commission, because of its makeup and the diversity of views on this commission, and the extraordinary difficulty of coming together on Social Security, which we thought was the…
I am eager to hear from our panelists to get a better sense of all the options they considered and how they reached consensus on the final report.





