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and one more point in this opportunity in the budget process the functional categories which served as a proxy for what we used to call the national needs are the goal of the process would be one way to think about looking at all the different ways we do things. you don t want to just look at the appropriate programs that go toward the goal x or the mandatory programs, what about credit programs? what about tax expenditures in gold something? if you want to know how much we support different parts of energy you have to look at all of them because we have different tools for each mode and that is a hard call but i am encouraged but the atmospherics and hope maybe we can make progress. anyway i think on behalf of all of us we would like to thank you all for being one of the few groups and thomas it still for a discussion on the budget process. [laughter] [applause] if you are a student watching on c-span right now or in the room right now and say you don t have a dissertation t
in 1983 president ronald reagan signed a law to reform social security. based on recommendations of the so-called greenspan commission. next, a forum on the effect of the 1983 law and ways to improve social security. the nonpartisan national academy of social insurance hosts this hour-long discussion. ha hi, good afternoon, everyone. welcome. you re here for the national academy of social the entrances panel on strengthening social security for the long run with insights from 1983. i d like to welcome you. i am lisa mensah, the executive director of the initiative on financial security at the aspen institute, and also served as the chair of the board of the national academy of social insurance. so welcome. we are thrilled to have you here on the day before our big national holiday, before almost every believes for the holiday, to really talk about one of the things that we are truly grateful for, our social security system. and today we have an exciting panel and a very int