Kent Conrad: “Forty-six percent of the American people would have a hard time coming up with $400 for an emergency car repair.”

if we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.

We all know that Social Security is going to have to be dealt with, or we are going to face by 2034 at the latest--many of us believe it will be earlier than that---an across-the-board 23-percent cut.

Fully 64 percent of the American people said they were worried about not having enough money for retirement.

Let me just say, you know, I come from a small business family.