Kent Conrad: “We should not take that off the table because I think your counsel there is excellent.”

There is going to be a 23-percent cut across the board by 2034.

We tried to include some of these ideas in our Social Security reform package, to actually provide incentives in the system for people to continue to work.

The consequence of failure has to be made clear.

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…