so there is one punishment under kapu, that is death. she could see western people coming breaking the kapu left and right, the volcano would not blow up. so if it is not working, why are we keeping this religion? after he died, she would have gone to the back of the room. she had no intention of going to the back of the room. she ended kapu. she had temples burned, idols pulled down. there was a spiritual vacuum in hawaii that by the time we send missionaries, and the first contingent -- everybody in america thinks we sent missionaries, they destroyed the local religion. they sailed into the vacuum. the hawaiians are a spiritual people, and they took very readily to christianity. there are stories i can tell you, but there is no time, and it is too polite and audience. when they found out how wide open the south pacific was, they were aghast. but the hawaiians took to it. this church was built on a spring that belonged to a high chief jutess. it was composed of 14,000 halftime blocks of coal cut by hand at the bottom of honolulu harbor.

t, doesn't mean cup put --kapu but it means trouble. the question is, what is being done to preserve these programs? if you get a chance when you get home, fire up the computer and plug in social security 2100. this is a bill my dear friend john larson from connecticut authored. i'm a cosponsor. it raises the cap. you pay into these programs until you make a certain amount and then you stop paying if you hit the amount. that is what the idea is. they raise the cap up. the way the bill works, you have kind of a doughnut hole. you pay a certain amount and then you stop. then once you make over 400 $50,000 a year, you pay in again. rep. cartwright: you're willing to make that sacrifice? [laughter] good. the benefit of that, the bills get scored by the congressional budget office. cbo. it is a nonpartisan group of accountants that look at hills and see what kind of effect they have, and they scored that and said it would extend the life, pushback the date by 75 years. but i think we need to do it sooner rather than later, because you have t