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Doing means testing, but gave each other cover. >> wed also have to see them stop the fraud and extraction in our country, whether its rigged trade or health care monopolies before we cut teachers salaries. >> i dont believe that education is a federal -- >> whether you think its federal or not, i believe that steals millions of dollars from people tends to be bad and arguing that you should cut their resources while they enable a noncompetitive marketplace between business and state thats prese...

>> bifurcate it those in the program approaching it deal the deal nothing changes. young people paying for todays retirees and tomorrows, we want you to have something when you retire, we will need a brand new compact. i think it starts with means testing, which is to say we shouldnt send a pension check to donald trump. we should concentrate the resources on those that are going to need them the most. we should in the future raise the retirement age to catch up with the medical reality of our t...

Difficult for people to plan. so we would raise the age gradually to 69 over, i think, 20 years and then hook it to longevity and it may end up going to 70 over another ten years. really over about 30 years it probably goes to 70 and there would have to be some means testing. and people arent going to like that. but the thing is, the alternative is the system may collapse. >> why arent people going to like that? let me say right now, i would volunteer for this. okay. if you want to raise the age...

20 years and then hook it to longevity and it may end up going to 70 over another ten years. really over about 30 years it probably goes to 70 and there would have to be some means testing. and people arent going to like that. but the thing is, the alternative is the system may collapse. >> why arent people going to like that? let me say right now, i would volunteer for this. okay. if you want to raise the age of retirement, thats fine. if you want to test me and see if i can afford to pay my ow...

The relic of employer-based health care. and it would have helped free up these other things. the other hoax we have to be honest about is the republicans are totally dishonest about taxes. because as the baby boomers age, were about to double the number of people on social security and medicare. all the republican it boys from paul ryan to chris christie, all say, oh, its all on the spending side. you cant double the number of people on these programs, even if you make aggressive trims in their...

Oneil did. theres no reason not to adjust the age. we can afford some means testing. that will save social security from bankruptcy as headed towards across the board cuts in 20 years. i applaud what youre doing but lets put social security on the table. me and senator mccain will work on a resolution. >> senator durbin? >> david f-i could say this about social security. i want to thank my colleague for the kind words. social security does not add one penny to the deficit. social security untouc...

Like ronald reagan and tip oneil did. theres no reason not to adjust the age. we can afford some means testing. that will save social security from bankruptcy as headed towards across the board cuts in 20 years. i applaud what youre doing but lets put social security on the table. me and senator mccain will work on a resolution. >> senator durbin? >> david f-i could say this about social security. i want to thank my colleague for the kind words. social security does not add one penny to the defi...

About that too much has come from paul ryan, the house republican who chairs the budget committee there. the president talked about social security and said there could be some tweaks made that would be less painful than taking on medicare and medicaid. how do you tackle things that are so big and impact millions of americans? >> i think chairman ryan is definitely on the right tha tra. this week i was in a small briefing with congressman ryan and my staff said to me all of a sudden i started tw...

Basically, right? >> well, the retirement age proposal is almost marginal to the action. because what the retirement -- you know, it gets a lot of flak. but what they proposed was that by 60 years from now, the retirement age would go to 69. theres hardly anyone born today impacted by that as a percentage of the population. it wasnt a radical event. the key savings you have to do in social security deal with whats known as a means testing or bens points. and how you calculate to make it more ref...

Will? >> im not his press secretary, i dont represent the administration. what he ought to do is stop the $600,000 cap on social security, you continue to pay no matter how much youre making, they could continue to raise the age at which -- dont forget you call it an entitlement. we actually pay into that. martha: youre right. you know what -- im glad you brought that up, because a lot of folks write into us, whenever we talk about social security and i dont think any of the proposals in the deb...