host: just about 10 minutes left with chuck blahous.t can see his work mercatus.org. ,his is michael out of morris illinois, social security recipient. good morning. two-parti, i've got a short statement followed by a question. question.amble to the i was listening to national public radio and there was a researcher at northwestern university and he has been studying how the super wealthy influence our system, and he , $50that since 1975 trillion was transferred from the middle class to the upper class. talking about cut this, cut that -- they have used the social security tax to cover up every one of these tax breaks that have been given to the upper level of people, none of which has trickled down to people like us. so we have to stop talking about that. need to clawback that $50 trillion from the 1% yours and .und social security only we should not be thinking of cutting anybody's benefits. i would like you to respond to that. host: chuck blahous, go ahead. of issuesre are a lot raised there. we could have a very different type of so