and again, if you're interested, i would suggest that you take a look at nancy altman's book, "socialecurity works." you can read about the history of it. you could also just google history of social security and read all about how it came together, wide areas decisions were made, and how a lot of it is, like i said, accidents of history. accidents of history might be eating a little generous. it is actually just the give of politics. the reason that we don't have health care today is because that was negotiated away to some of the conservative senators at the time, and we still don't have guaranteed health care in this country. the history of social security is really accessible if you want to actually just google it. host: albuquerque, new mexico, independent. caller: good morning. i'd like to combine another social issue with this, and that is illegal immigration. lots and lots of businesses cheat by hiring illegal immigrants. the democrats don't say or do anything about it, they just want to let everybody in the country. and i'm sure the far left is really going to push for any pa