mark hurd a leni who also argued for raising the retirement age and means testing social security medicare benefits essentially turning those programs in a welfare programs in fact seventy one c.e.o.'s have joined together as part of a so-called fix the debt coalition to call for cuts to social safety net programs instead of higher taxes on rich people like themselves and as the institute for policy studies discovered there's a good reason why these c.e.o.'s want to target social safety nets like social security and good reason is they don't need them they're all sitting on massive retirement assets averaging over nine million dollars each by bank blankfein himself has nearly twelve million dollars in retirement assets it's easy to call