04/21/2009
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"We want to save Social Security and Medicare. That is our goal. We want to save it and make it sustainable for future generations."
"We have actually done about 81 percent of Simpson-Bowles."
"And, then, when the Trust Funds run out of the retirement benefits, right now, somewhere around 2033, what is the projection in terms of reduction--by law, the reduction in benefits when we run out of..."
"CBO has analyzed in great detail the long-term consequences of deficit spending."