the sunflower state this is rick inll atchison. >> good morning. this is just a follow-up to a statement you made about social security and medicare possibly going bankrupt in the future and so on however, the fix for one is much easier than the fix for the other one and so you didn't make that distinction. you did say later that there are fixes for both of them. so maybe if you just talked about the fixes that you see for both of them that we cleared up. >> i appreciate the gentleman's question. let me just be honest when we talk about the social security and medicare it's off my expertise so i don't want to go too far. it should be pretty easy for most americans to understand. take social security for example. people have been living much longer since the program was founded. that means larger and larger benefits over time. so if the benefits of social security are increasing over time and tax revenues are not epkeeping up, there's two things you can do. you can try to scale benefits back in a sort of methodical way over time that's not going to