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America's hard working families down here in florida. but also you have to talk about a vision for how do we reform and repair medicare and social security. we have a problem with fraud, waste and abuse here. we know that the actuaries have said that medicare is going to go bankrupt in the nextite to nine years and you will see a degradation of social security benefits five to six years after that. we are looking for someone with a plan of action to get the economy turned around but also concerned about national security. just last week we had president mahmoud ahmadinejad visiting cuba. and c...

Would add to the deficit. that was clearly the congressional budget act coming into that conclusion and the actuaries, and the administration repeatedly ignored the warnings coming from their own administration that this will not work. and, so it draws into question other elements of the bill, now, but, we ought to repeal, get this off the books, do not give them an opportunity in the future to reactivate this. this in its current form does not work. >>neil: the only way to have it turned over when the court, maybe the supreme court, and that could happen next year, we don't know. but, barring...

Pocket, i don't have it. >> it doesn't apply to anybody above 55. >> it applies to people in the year 2030 and 2050 and beyond after that. if we haven't fixed the problem by 2030 or 20, 50 that is the least of our concerns. >> bret: what is the economic consequences if we don't deal with this? >> actuaries tell us every year we don't address the crisis we go $10 billion deeper in the hole how much unfunded problems they're making for the girl. in the neighborhood itself of $100 trillion where we go deeper in the hole every year we fail to fix the problem. what that means is when we get around ...

I go to a large list of insurance companies across the country and i choose just the one for me and the price that i like and they all compete for my business which competition always drives costs down and quality up. >> congressman ryan said yesterday when he was speaking with bret baier on "special report" that it's obama care that is actually raiding medicare to the tune of $500 billion. do you agree with that assessment? >> yes, no question about it. not only does obama care take out a half a trillion dollars but it spends it in two places which the actuaries say that's impossible to do bu...

Medicare. president obama has faced this trigger in 2009, 2010, 2011 and ignored it. he has failed to meet the statutory requirement under the law of providing congress a plan to put the finances the situation inside medicare back together. the president is treating this as if these are not problems. his own actuaries the trustees of medicare came out based on the actuaries' report two weeks ago and said medicare going broke in 2024. ryan has presented a plan that will save medicare and make it a program that can sustain itself over the long haul. president obama is ignoring his own actuaries ...