Yes. It is hard to believe, but it is true. The President is telling us he has put nothing in the budget because he says it is hard to estimate how much it will be. I have said to these representatives, the thing we know is the right answer is not zero. That is the thing we know for sure. Zero is not the right answer.
Discussing budget estimates and the President's budget proposal.
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I would just say in this whole area of lifetime income options, there is a tremendous opportunity here.
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.
Things are changing very rapidly, and it presents us with a requirement to change how we envision retirement as well.
The surviving spouse provisions are especially important with regard to offsetting some of the unfairness that exists elsewhere.
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