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Are you prepared to raise the retirement age? Means test, benefits or
in other way seriously tackle the entitlement of social security. David,
what we have said is weíve got a real fiscal train wreck coming
for this country if we donít deal with these entitlements.
AhÖ And so entitlements are something that we need to begin to
work on now for
Me, the first entitlement we need to deal with ah.. is the Health Care Bill.
Is the Obama Health CareÖ. Weíll get to healthcare, I asked you about social security though. Absolutely an, an and so we have got to
focus on what we can do together
Now as youÖ.as that just
indicated the Senate is not willing to do anything
under Harry Reid. What are you willing to do, means test benefits, raise the
retirement age? David, weíve we have a program that we have seen one of our
members Paul Ryan the Chairman of the Budget Committee put together called The Road Map.
Um. And He, and Kevin McCarthy and I wrote a book together. And in that book we
reserved a chapter for discussion, uh..
about social security, about Medicare and how we can begin to at least discuss. But what are you for? Iím asking you, what are you for?
What Iím telling you weíre for is , weíre for an active discussion
to see what we can come together and do . How long do we need to discuses social security and what is happening? Itís been discussed for years
An, an and the irony of Paul Ryan being introduced the budget chairman,
Heís doing the responses of state of the union. He is
the one whose proposed draconian uh..
cuts to social security
and to Medicare and Republicans donít stand behind it. DavidÖ. David.
Thatís not true, I just told you that
um we put a chapter in our book
about it, because the direction in which the roadmap goes is something that we need.
We need to embrace.