I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself.

And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode.

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis.

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare.

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.