i lived in ardmore, pennsylvania. >> you didn't go? >> to, i went to the principal academy for eight years. >> well, ok. >> we had lot of sporting events at lower marion, great school. >> as a matter of fact, lower marion, back in those days, were in the top 40 in the country, and it's still pretty high right now. are you going to ask your question now? jack kushma hman? oh, all right. yes, sir. >> hi. thank you for the very inspiring story. i can do a little better, i'm a gr mullenberg, class of 1952. >> ok. 1952. we were there saiment. -- at the same time, because i would have been -- of the considered to be class of 1949, the way that they talked, and ben sportswater was the football coach, you may remember, and we had a great time. by the way, sends you know about lower marion, my wife happened to go into a place called radner, so what else can i say? yes, sir? >> a lot of us were in the army in those days, 1948 to 1952, i was in a regiment with the black battalion and -- [indiscernible. .]] and it worked out. -- that innovation to

our first phone call for him is the focus on jobs and the economy from ardmore, okla. caller: thanks for having me on. the economy is in shambles. i see prices going up and being disabled we did not get a cost- of-living raise this year. it is a to under $50.10 time payment. -- $250 one-time payment. if you can show me someone who is disabled or otherwise and can live on what they have -- and be able to not worry about thing, i would like to hear about that. host: terry. guest: what he is saying is true. the president proposed tried to address that in terms of many seniors who did not get a cost- of-living increase because of the recession. we must recognize that for terry and 40 million seniors we do have a social secured. most people did not want to look at their 401k statements of the past year because they have lost nearly all their savings. but the one thing they did not lose is their social security. most democrats in congress agree with him that we need not only to see social security survive, t buthrive and we need to improve it. so that seniors at least have t