I should have written the specifics down at the time, Marc. Sorry, but the details elude me. As I said,I was impressed with the time, and seriousness with which he approached it, and throughout the remainder of the event, as he took questions from others, he kept coming back to my concern. Now I do realize that what is said during the campaign often times doesn't resemble what eventually plays out when the speaker is in office.

My belief is that a multi-faceted approach is the only route that will work: spending cuts, tax increases, means testing, etc. We didn't dig ourselves into the debt hole over night, and we won't get out of it for decades to come. The longer we wait, the greater the pain down the road.

There's a lot of talk about the unfairness of the estate/death tax, but I'm of the opinion that the birth debt liability being placed upon the young, and those that follow, is far more inequitable.

I know the debt isn't "sexy", gets little attention here and elsewhere, but I can't think of a more important domestic issue that we face.

Peter T.