But the balanced approach, if you increase taxes, it is going to harm economic growth.

There are no tax increases that are going to help our economy grow.

And we all want a strong social safety net. We are a very compassionate society.

I do not see any way we start solving these problems until we are honest with the American people in terms of the depth of the problem.

So increasing taxes on the rich is a tenth as effective if we would actually just return our economy to a normal economy.

Within the next 10 years, the cash deficit in Social Security will be about $1.3 trillion.

For anybody to say that Social Security is solvent to the year 2035 is just--I just think that is a false statement.

I think we all share the same goal here. We all want a prosperous America.

The Social Security Trust Fund in total, on a consolidated basis, has no value to the Federal Government.

We are spending more per pupil and we are getting terrible results.

Government-run programs, government-funded programs run way too slow.