I'm Pete du Pont with the National Center for Policy Analysis. First, he'd add to the Social Security's obligations by offering an earnings credit to eight million women who leave the workforce to raise children, and increasing widows' benefits. But the system's going broke in 2015 even without increases. Well, he'd use current Social Security surpluses to pay down the national debt.
Lower debt means lower interest payments.
He'd then put the savings back into Social Security. Yet even if he's right, he only fends off deficit day at Social Security for six years. After that, either benefits get cut or taxes get raised. Those are my ideas, and at the NCPA we know ideas can change the world. I'm Pete du Pont.