David Thomas: “if we are going to be talking about the greatest threats to our children, we ought to at least get it accurate. The…”

“if we are going to be talking about the greatest threats to our children, we ought to at least get it accurate. The greatest threat to our children is our failure to acknowledge that we are currently engaged in the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. They are called the Medicare and the Social Security programs. The failure to modernize and to reform, given the continued growth of those programs in the Federal budget, will choke out every other aspect of the Federal budget. The threat that they will go bankrupt without our addressing them is the greatest threat to our children, denying them the opportunity tomorrow what seniors have today. So if we are going to talk about threats, let us talk about the failure, the absolute refusal to give up a political bumper sticker, you have all seen it: 'Save Social Security, Vote Democratic.' If you do not address change, it is going bankrupt. It is not a partisan issue. Just like the yellowed papers on 'we are favoring the rich and hurting the poor on the tax issue,' which is absolutely false, your failure to address this fundamental reform is the greatest threat to our children. And probably the greatest insult to Americans is to argue that while you refuse to seriously engage in modernization and reform, you are doing it to save the system. It is about as old and yellowed as all your other arguments. The test will be the choice made by the American people.…”