if you don t do anything then with social security when i wadle up to get your check in the year 2037, you ll get 22% less. we re not balancing the budgets on the backs of social security, we re trying to make it solvent for our children and grandchildren if they don t make the hard stuff on medicare and medica medicaid. we re taking care of the lowest 20% and people over 80 and we re not talking about privatization. these jerks who keep dragging that up are lying. we never suggested that. we re talking about doing a hideous thing to change the retirement age to 68 by the year 2050. and hear people howl about that. what do they care about their kids or grandkids? let me ask you, i was talking to a historian on the 50th anniversary of ice an hour s speech. he said that was a generation
similarly, 78% chose to protect social security. when we come back, an earlier conversation i had with the outspoken former senator alan simpson who served as co-chair of the debt commission. if you don t do anything with social security when you waddle up to get your check in the year 2037, you will get 22% less. [ female announcer ] experience dual-action power,
culture. great. don t do anything then and then it just crushed out. if you don t do anything then with social security when i waddle up to get your check in 2037, you ll get 22% less. we re not balancing the budgets on the backs of social security, we re trying to make it solvent for our children and grandchildren if they don t make the hard stuff on medicare and medicaid. we re taking care of the lowest 20% and people over 80 and we re not talking about privatization. these jerks who keep dragging that up are lying. we never suggested that. we re talking about doing a hideous thing to change the retirement age to 68 by the year 2050. and to hear people howl and beep
the other returns fire later. we have wondered hour by hour, which side the military takes. this is a country largely ruled by the military. if they support mubarek, he s safe and he s good and there will be a crackdown, good in terms of power and holding on to it until september. if not, what happens then? and that s the wild card the world waits to see play out. martha: we ll keep an eye on it. in the meantime, social security, as we have reported here, is expected to run dry by 2037, and republican senator lend see graham says he has a plan to save the program. what he is now proposing. we re going to get that from him coming up. plus democratic leadership in the senate doesn t want to vote on this bill, but i assure you, we will. that s what americans want, it s the right thing to do. bill: he says republicans made a pledge to the american people, repeal health care. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, live in three minutes with what we can expect today in a key vote head
going to be called the first avenger. that s so crazy. before you know it, this country will be called half of north america. we can t say america either. what will we say? what will we call this country when we can t say america anymore? we could be the northern half of the western there you go. there, ok. anyway, let us know how you think about that. twitter us or send us an e-mail. unlike egypt, our twitter still works in this country. they haven t shut it off yet. we don t think so. tense moments for two twin boys when their father collapsed before their eyes. he went scared to death. but they weren t too scared to save the day. hear their amazing story. if you re planning on getting social security, brace yourself for this. new numbers say it s going to be broke by 2037. should you start saving or is this just a government scare tactic? stuart varney breaks it down when we come back.