Tom Coburn: “I think we should. One thing I want to address is this bogeyman everybody talks about called the Consumer Price Index…”

“I think we should. One thing I want to address is this bogeyman everybody talks about called the Consumer Price Index, or the CPI. Because, in fact, when we ask politicians and we ask Members of the House of Representatives how many of them want to talk about that with their constituency, very few will say, ``Yes, I will be happy to talk about that.'' They are afraid of that issue. I think we should talk about that issue. The very people who are receiving Social Security today are the people in this country that went through the Depression and fought the great war. They won World War II. And the real issue surrounding the CPI is, does the CPI accurately represent the increase in the cost associated with the standard of living for people on Social Security?”