Before you say, 'Ladies and gentlemen, your Social Security and Medicare benefits are going down and your taxes are going up, ' they want to know there are no more bridges to nowhere.

In the long run, social security and Medicare benefits will be cut to affordable levels when the United States finds itself in the same desperate fiscal situation as Greece, but probably not before.

A week later at the FDR Memorial, I signed the legislation that extended Medicare and Medicaid benefits to disabled people in the workforce.