My Record Is, Far As I Know,

The Mortal Enemies Of Social Security And Medicare Are Those Who, In Contempt Of The Plain Arithmetic, Continue To Mislead Americans That We Should Change Nothing.

Sure, Things Could Always Have Been Done Better, But I Just Wish People Would Drop Their Political Hammers For A Few Weeks, As Happened In 2001, And Work On The Problem At Hand

We Designed Both Our State Employee Health Plans And The One We Created For Low-income Hoosiers As Health Savings Accounts, And Now In The Tens Of Thousands These Citizens Are Proving That They Are Fully Capable Of Making Smart, Consumerist Choices About Their Own Health Care.

The Failure Of National Economic Policy Is Costing Us More Than Jobs; It Has Begun To Weaken That Uniquely American Spirit Of Risk-taking, Large Ambition, And Optimism About The Future. We Must Rally Them Now To Bold Departures That Rebuild Our National Morale As Well As Our Material Prosperity.

I Refer, Of Course, To The Debts Our Nation Has Amassed For Itself Over Decades Of Indulgence. It Is The New Red Menace, This Time Consisting Of Ink. We Can Debate Its Origins Endlessly And Search For Villains On Ideological Grounds, But The Reality Is Pure Arithmetic.