>> when it changes, you want to make sure it's put back into social security. so you're basically saying, fine, we may tichker with cola, but what it is, it's going back into -- >> i'm not saying we're going to tinker with cola, but i am saying when you're dealing with social security, yes, it should extend the life of social security. right now social security is fully solvent until 2037. what we should not be doing is trying to balance the rest are of the budget on the backs of social security beneficiaries. what we could do is work to strengthen social security on its own track and there may be ways to dedicate more revenue to social security as part of any discussion and further strengthen the solvency of social security. >> all right. what is too much for democrats? it looks like -- we were discussing a bit of the simple math here. there's complicated math when we talk about colas and social security and then there's simple math, 218. we know there's not 218 republicans for a deal. boehner knows that. the republicans are conceding