Tim Ryan: “And I thank the gentleman. And let us take the definition and apply it to this chart. A crisis is an unstable situation…”

“And I thank the gentleman. And let us take the definition and apply it to this chart. A crisis is an unstable situation of extreme danger, or difficulty. Unstable situation. Now, how could you call this, 100 percent of the benefits for the next 40 some years, how is that an unstable situation? It is a very stable situation. And I would even argue that 80 percent, without doing anything, 45 years from now is not unstable. That is a stable situation. It needs to be dealt with. But extreme danger or difficulty? How could you call from 2005 to the late 2040s extreme danger or difficulty? It does not apply here. And using the word ``crisis'' is extreme, and it is trying to scare the American public. And you see it in the poll results. The American people are beginning not to buy it. Now, we could even try to go to the second definition of what a crisis is, a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something. There is no crucial stage or turning point that needs to happen here. We are not on a brink here that we have got to change something immediately. There is no crisis here. And as the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Meek) stated very eloquently, there are many more issues that I think we need to deal with. And there was one other thing, and we are kind of moving things around a little bit here, that I want to share just briefly.”