Kent Conrad: “Let us not kill the baby in the crib.”

The new improvised system was not adequate.

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 bottom 20 percent of earners get a 35-percent increase over what is scheduled, a more than 60-percent increase over what is payable.

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.