That was made in March of 2001, when, the Senator will recall, he was assuring us we could afford to have a massive defense buildup, deep tax cuts, that it would all add up and he would be able to protect Social Security and Medicare, not use the money for other purposes, and he would have maximum paydown of the debt. He was wrong on every single count. He was wrong by a country mile.
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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.
We did a whole series of things in our Social Security reform not to discourage people from working, but to encourage them to continue working if they are able to do so.
Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.
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