Kent Conrad: “I think the public has hit a tipping point here, too.”

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

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.

The one thing I know for sure is that what is happening now is not working.

All the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.