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the lower-income brackets rely on social security for three-quarters or more of income. when you go into middle class, upper middle class, that s where it s less of an important component. but i think we re going to have to find ways to just bolster the program. there have to be ways to preserve the is there any chance of that ho happening, very quickly, mark? it is the third rail of politics. it s a potent election issue. right. well, we re going to have a recommendation from the president s deficit commission later this year, and then there s going to be a lot of discussion around this idea of now cutting that and it s going to be a very heated discussion. i think it s important to separate it from the discussion of budget deficits because frankly social security has nothing to do with the budget deficit. it actually is a program that runs at $2.5 trillion surplus at this point, so why would we be talking about sacrificing it to the deficit, i can t fathom. mark miller gave u

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