Kent Conrad: “Those who suggest it was not fiscally responsible, I do not think they are very aware of the history.”

I think there is just a tremendous opportunity here, and I really applaud the two of you for doing this in a bipartisan way.

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.

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…

The consequence of failure has to be made clear.