security closets and secure reception areas. because this room was outfitted with remote learning technology, it will expand its use to include virtual classes on state security topics. working hand in glove with the police, and we have renewed our focus on residential security for the residential security system program. to date, 37 senators have received a requested residential security assessment led by the physical security experts. we are on track to start installing security equipment identified by the assessments this summer. that said, the most persistent threats we face are in the cyber domain. we have applied funds for the modernization of senate communications. the senate network is now backed up into modern dispersed data centers, and we protect the network with a myriad of hardware in trained professionals. this comes at a cost, as you see on our budget request. it acts's for two point $4 million to assist in proactive defense. we've also prioritize modernization, including up dating transit to enhance payroll proce

for securing the homeland. and we addressed five major missions, set forth in her to prior reviews. countering terrorism and securing our borders, administrating our immigration system, securing cyberspace in critical infrastructure, and building resilience and starting to disasters have prayed that her son, however, we added a sixth homeland security mission set, the work of combating crimes of exploitation, including, human trafficking trial exultation and labor exploitation is pivotal addition reflects the overriding importaf supporting victims, accepting the perpetrators of these increasingly, prevalent crimes. the light of the threats, as they could materialize tomorrow, and i want to highlight, new initiatives into key areas that have had across all of the departments missions. the people's republic of china poses an especially grave threat, to the land when that indeed does touch all of our departments missions. beijing, has a capability in the intent, to undermine are interested home and abroad, and is

the security of this infrastructure is important to the ongoing security question. you testifiedyou testified about in march 20 21, how did the strategystrategy encouraged rese of the larger response? >>>> we had collaborative way of working together. you talked a lot about trade, thank you for moderating this conversation. we know cloud trade, thank you for moderating this conversation. we know cloud infrastructure is important and helpful for businesses of all types. both large and small, in particular, we areboth large ann particular, we are focused on schools, hospitals, public utilities. they don'tthey don't have the co they don't have the capacity to withstand these risks. they don't have the capacity to withstand these risks. i think it is game changing and the protective internet providers. the vast majority of businesses, the constant burden of protection is placed on them. they do security by default. access controls like password complexity requirements that are all baked in by default. incredibly important that they take that responsibility on. we know t

homeland security investigations -- agency, within the department of homeland security, works very, very closely with our partners across the federal government. not just the federal bureau of investigation, but the drug enforcement administration and other law enforcement agencies. not only that, it is working con task forces which state and local tribal and territorial partners across the country. you correctly identify the adverse nation state of iran as a threat to the homeland. we are very focused on this. not just in the way that you've identified, but in the myriad of ways that it seeks to do us harm, to include the spread, for example, of disinformation. >> thank you, and i know how important it is to combat terrorism, but there are other fights we need to have to. we need to address the rise of antisemitism. of course, across america, jews are facing an alarming rise in antisemitism, i don't have to tell you that, according to the fbi, antisemitic hate crimes increased by nearly 20% in 2021. these antisemitic hate crimes represented the majority of religious base hate crimes com

security direct funds and secure reception areas. .. areas. because this room was outfitted with remote learning technology, it will expand its use to include virtual classes on state security topics. working hand in glove with the police, and we have renewed our focus on residential security for the residential security system program. to date, 37 senators have received a requested residential security assessment led by that said, the most persistent threats we face are the cyber domain through carefully played funds to bring the resilient security and modernization of the senate communications. the senate network is backed up into modern dispersant data centers we protect the network with the myriad of software and hardware and trained professionals. this comes at a costio as you se in her budget request. s2 .9491 dollars to assist in proactive defense we also prioritize modernization including updating transact department with the secretary to $enhance office payroll process if he is an unified communication and collaboratione system. our i

for example , national security provisions. e now e is expanded with such a provision as the sustainable development of society, that is, the state of protection of national interests from internal and external threats, as previously it was supplemented with an ethesis for the sustainable development of another society, because it is precisely sustainable development is probably the basis for the protection of national interests the basis for the development of the prosperity of the state of the situation. e, how strategic interests are supplemented by such an important category in accordance with the constitution, as the protection of the people of belarus as the only unique historical community, the only source of state power, the concept is expanded or the concept of providing ideology is added, probably on a par with sovereignty , independence, territorial integrity of the concept defines the role and places of belarus in modern world. our republic is considered as an established independent sovereign state, it pursues a pe

supplemental security income is a different program than social security.t is administered by the social security administration, but it is not what we are talking about today, just as a point of clarification and fact. ssi is different than social security. some of the other things that you said are true, except backwards. there was a maximum tax rate, and because of that, a maximum benefit rate. and it went in that direction. the idea is that social security is an insurance program. you pay into it, you earn your benefits when you become fully insured, and again, we could have had everybody paying in on all of their income from the beginning with a benefit structure that is very similar to what we have right now, it just returns less and less as you get up into those elon musk numbers of billions of dollars. host: bob, do you have a follow-up? caller: i believe he's wrong. social security was originally, as i believe, the ssi and all the other things that you are about have been added on between when that started and now. that is what i was talking about

it is in regard to social security solvency.y understanding is that in order to make it solvent, we would have to do a number of different things like increase the amount of income that is subject to social security taxes, but also increase the retirement age and however, i would be delighted if the biden administration and bernie sanders, i heard this about a month ago -- i wanted to see if you think the numbers are jive. for the upper income folks, how much of their income is subject to social security taxes being taken out as they are making income? i think it is only the first $185,000 now or whatever, and i think bernie sanders said if we start doing 250,000 as well, it would be solvent for like 70 years. and even if we only did 400,000, that it would still make it solvent for another 30. host: you're talking about raising the cap, as it is known. guest: there is a number of great things in the question that i just want to emphasize and reiterate. let me start with the second part of the question about specifically the mech

our homeland security has converged with our broader national security. the profound evolution in the homeland security threat environment, changing at a pace faster than ever before, has required our department of homeland security to evolve along with it. we have built new institutions, modernized our approach and processes, developed new capabilities, and are harnessing innovation as we deliver critical services that are more in demand than ever before. our overarching strategy is one of partnership. homeland security cannot be accomplished by government alone. it requires collective action. to meet the threat of domestic violent extremism, we created the center for prevention programs and partnerships to share with local communities the best practice models of identification and intervention when an individual is exhibiting signs of moving towards violence. through our grant programs we are helping communities build threat prevention capabilities where previously they did not exist, responding to the reality that major metropolitan areas are no longer

security council.orter: for the next month, russia will chair the u.n. security council. the council's presidency rotates every month, and that gives the holder some influence in shaping its agenda. but some members are objecting to russia chairing a body dedicated to peace and security as it wages war in ukraine e. >> yesterday the russian army killed another ukrainian child, a five-month-old boy. the parents are wounded. one of the hundreds of artillery attacks that the terrorist state carries out today. and at the same time russia , presides over the u.n. security council. it is difficult to imagine anything that proves the complete bankruptcy of such institutions. reporter: the ukrainians are pushing for russia to be removed from the council. but even kiev's allies admit that's effectively impossible. >> unfortunately russia is a , permanent member of the security council, and no feasible international legal pathway exists to change that reality. that is what we are living with currently. as impalp

security company. this offer has been downloaded more than a billion times globally. i'm a big believer in this. i think there is a powerful democratizing element that makes sophisticated capability more accessible to people globally. and ultimately with the right controls in place over time i would put my security that on a community rather than a small team of engineers behind a wall and better how good the team is. at the philosophical level i do think this is the future. i think we are in the early stages of an open wave in technology broadly. we see it not only in the security software stack but we see it in telecommunications. the beginning of the popularization of open radio access networks to this at a great -- to disaggregate the telco stacks and introduce innovation at every layer, maybe we can do the unimaginable and bring venture capital to telecommunications by breaking it apart in enough ways that you can actually fuel technology innovation at the different layers of the telco stack which

americans no economic security can vanish in an without health security. i ask congress to join me this year to enact a patient's bill rights. to give uninsured workers to help buy health coverage coverage. through improved, to approve an historic increase. the spending for veterans health. and to give seniors a sound and modern medicare system that includes coverage for prescription drugs. a good jobs a good job should lead to security and retirement. i asked congress to enact new for 401 k and pension plans plans. employees have who have worked hard, saved all their lives, should not have to risk losing everything if their company fails. through stricter accounting and tougher disclosure requirements. corporate america be made more accountable to employees and shareholders and held the highest standards of conduct. retiring and security also depends upon keeping the commitments of social security. and we will we must make social security financially stable and allow personal retirement accounts for younger workers, choose them. members, you and i will wo

council ; there are 14 sanction regimes on the agenda of the council of security the security council is responsible for 12 peacekeeping operations that continue to this day in the world, that is, in essence, the council of security works and the russian federation very effectively uses its right of veto in order to prove that out of 49 issues, in 48 issues there is an opportunity to make decisions, there is an opportunity to direct operations with maintaining peace is an opportunity to effectively control the sanctions regime in one way or another. therefore, it would not be true to say that the council is ineffective and bankrupt when it comes to stopping the war it is waging a country that is considered by the world to be a permanent member of the security council, but let's go back to yalta in february of 1945 for a second and let's be honest or honestly remind everyone of the negotiations in yalta in 1945, where the third issue was the creation of the united nations , which was far from the same how to create a democratic organization, the essence of the issues that were consider

and nice economic security , including, well, what kind of economic security if they impose sanctions on russia against us, that’s why the direction says we need to cut through all our agreements and agreements between belarus and russia and see which normative legal. an interstate character must be adopted now in order to ensure the complete security of belarus in general, this was heard at the negotiations. so in case of aggression against belarus, the russian federation defends belarus as its own territory. these are the kind of security guarantees we need, in principle, somehow in the nineties, nishatka not valka talked about this. uh, now, in connection with the actions and trends in the west, all this has been forgotten. well, what kind of security guarantees can america provide us? yes, none, except for salting aggression against us, as you can see, we now needed us from this issue and agreed that you would come as experts today and we have this issue. uh, seriously, let's discuss in the context of the situation that is developing around us today, including a special military o

so the security council and countries just a just part of security council not being permanent members. so i wouldn't say it's absurd. it will be absurd to get russia out of nice nations because this new united nations will not be recognized by china or somebody by india. so still it says x is a space for a discussion which is a still a square. we can. busy we can meet, it was possible to use us even in the period of cold war. why not use it now? residents, what do you think? is it right that russia should add the security council? what is prosecuting this war and your great well, i think absurd is, is one a good way to, to describe it because, i mean, we have the country that has been designated and greg are states by the u. n. and we have a country whose leader is an accused more criminal. so in those terms it's, it's fair to, to call this situation upset. so in practical terms, what will russia bring to the table in its role presiding in the un security council for this time? yeah, sure. so, i mean, of course it's mostly a symbolic position, but it's of course, it has, the presidenc

as more people qualify for social security in the coming years, the social security administration faces increased challenges to adequately serve new and current beneficiaries. to help us get a better understanding of these challenges and the opportunities for change facing the social security administration we have a pleasure to talk to mformer colleague, theow acting commissioner of the social serity administration, dr. kilolo kijakazi. prior to her appointment, she served as a deputy commissioner r retirement and disability policy at ssa from the biden administration until july of 2021. for seve years before that she was institute fellow at the urban institute where she developed collaborative partnerships for expanding the research anda, helped to communicate findis from all different rearch to diverse audiences and was indispensable in our efforts to recruit and retain diverse research staff at all levels. she conducted research and areas for racism. before joining urban, she was a program officer where shepoke on building economic security andncorporating the expertise of people in

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security agency. so i think of it in terms of an attack, but whether the attack is in the context of war or day-to-day aggression. i think our defenses and our actions remain the same. >> the fbi director said that they opened a new investigation into chinese counter intelligence every 10 hours and half of their counter investigations are related to china. how significant right now is the prc of exploitation of things like the immigration system? >> with unof the things-- one of the things we're focused on immigration, nontraditional collection, individuals will seek to abuse the student visa program, other lawful means of coming to the united states, individuals with intent to collect information against us seek to exploit our lawful avenues. >> but is there a metric like that? i mean, how do you put a number on how significant the threat is? if there's a counter intelligence investigation opened every 10 hours, how significant? >> i have to tell you, we considered extraordinarily significant when we

well, what security guarantees can america provide us with? yes, no, except for all of his non-aggression against us. as we see. now we need full security guarantees from our fraternal russia, and here we are parting with putin, if we touched on this again question and contract. to experts arrive today and we have this issue. uh, seriously, let's discuss in the context of the situation that is developing around us today, including the special military operation , we will not hide a separate issue combat training and coordination of a joint group of troops thousand russian military personnel. how much do we need it? uh, we have joined this process and are preparing together with your officers. uh, these guys and combat coordination we carry out ready as it should be, because we should not relax here to see that the poles are lithuanians. here they began to move in our direction, so this is a good help and support for the e belarusian army, which protects on the western flank. union state, i really arrived as a result of your trip to your work w

and so not just in security mysteries, but all across the government. the talbot had been forced to work with the people who used to be fighting them in order to try to make the state run. is that where most of these 300000 are serving members of the are gone military number the president joe biden gave in 2021 went well. so officially, there was what was called a test deal or a roster of about 350000 members of the army police and intelligent services under the previous government. and there had always been concerns that a large number of those so called personnel were just ghosts that somebody was pocketing the money and you know, spiriting and out of the country. and you know, as we saw with the child and offensive in 2021 that did turn out to be true. as you know, these units just melted away, disappeared or, or just never existed in the 1st place. so when the taliban disbanded the former security forces, in some places there wasn't anything to disband in other places, it did result in really wholesale unemployment, particularly in the provinces of

every customer that i've met since we announced to security copilot has asked us when security copilot available at scale. we have released a private preview because it's important for us to work with customers and partners. it is a learning system. we need to train the ai and learn from our customers but every customer and partner has asked us and we are helping them lay the foundations for ai now. ed: security has seen this emerging growth driver for microsoft. there is also a talent question happening on the ground at rsa. do you need to have people with a new skill set with a background in ai rather than traditional security software? vasu: that is the beauty of the generative ai. do you know what the most powerful coding language right now is in the world? english. that is going to help get a whole new generation of defenders in because it will reduce the barriers to entry for cybersecurity. we have a talent shortage, $3.1 million. we have a diversity and training challenge. imagine someone who just gets into the workforce and can use ai as their ally to help them understand and g

and this case loses from the security council is it presented by the peace and security council of the african union and e gun which also have their own. we've come on of experience and conflict resolution aligned with the charter to which defines that all of reach in an organization's industry, gods. my city that the african union has adopted the principle of african solutions . the african problem. last yes we're down should be given the opportunity to it in your home model site and collaboration with any channel and godly bhakti mom. so that should not be pushed into dealing with the emerging national security threat alone and will face a boycott that and some of the parties seek to impose there. so down favors and interactive and positive engagement with the un which intern enhances its ability to adapt and go with the most difficult circumstances. and the current events wouldn't have happened with her had the international community shouldered its commitments and provided the financial support for finalize. the did the, our process usually we audited them. if you go in dot 4 is cu

a strategy to ensure the job security of workers. job security. the recommendations of the supreme leader. the first labor law of the islamic republic of iran is the guarantee of job security . basically, the employer cannot easily fire a worker . shadoug lazi, of course, they take a legal and realistic approach. on the other hand, if a worker becomes unemployed under any circumstances , they can use unemployment insurance benefits for two years. now, if someone loses his job for any reason, you will receive 80% of the minimum salary approved by the council. excellent work, he pays unemployment insurance to provide him with another job opportunity. for some reasons, some factories, of course , a little less now, but at times were closed a lot, and you are in order to prevent these factories or production units from closing what is your plan? they are concerned that this issue is not within the scope of the ministry of cooperatives. this issue is being followed up in several ministries, or different working groups are formed in the governorates, an

this is information security.that information security should be prescribed in a separate article and will be whether it is spelled out in this concept? and there should and will be information security and sovereignty. uh. this is something that needs to be spelled out in detail, because you see what challenges of the time , uh, our states faced when our western partners, so to speak, simply cut off all information resources with a knife switch. here. uh. i would like to express my gratitude to silan mask, who has now begun to restore justice and really show at least some basics of democracy, of course, information security and sovereignty. this first of all, because our youth. our society. eh, it's not a secret. eh, often and for a long time brought up completely different values. here in all these uncontrolled social networks. yes. this did not create any problems for us in general. eh, until it happened. here is this monstrous crisis, when the monstrous crisis happened, you saw that there is no democracy there

this year he chairs the un security council . how is this possible?course, i want to say that there is no exclusion mechanism. russia 's betrayal of security does not have such means to exclude russia from the organization of the united nations, because we as an organization will need permission from the security council and how can you imagine that in fact almost it is impossible because russia has the right of veto and we understand that russia will preside over the un security council for a month, we must be ready and i think that not only ukrainian representatives have already prepared for this period of russia's presidency, but we all must realize that i can gipson can to provide some guidelines or manipulations regarding certain issues in order to present their points of view , and also to cause or bring to the agenda those issues that actually play into the hands of russia and can in a certain way justify russia's criminal actions and which it has been conducting for the last year yes, and again i want to ask you about why the united nations is

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it will be a good day for finance, security for nordic security on for nato as a whole. as the situation in europe has changed quite much over the last year, i think it gives a lot of new opportunity for better safety in the future. so we have been, for a long time, we've been relying on our independence and neutrality. now we just realized that that's not the path of the future. now we need to look for new options for the future pain. some ways i think it will make a safer place. but then again, we don't know what a russia will do and like, yeah, it's all like the big question for me, i think so. it's better than nothing. you know, it's, we are alone. it's not, it's no chance in this situation. now we are part of what's been, your refund is gonna pick it up to the bottom of this, not in the lawyer. so that brings us a security. let's go over to cave and get more on this with jonah. also, jonah was the war and ukraine that really led to this major change in nato's makeup . yet look at the simplest of terms when russia invaded ukraine last february, prompted a very signif

well, now vasyl, to the main vote of russia in the un security council. well, someone says that it's just a lack of understanding, someone says that it's generally something incredible, well, the fact of the russian presidency indicates that something is going on, something is going wrong in the world security architecture that's how the head commented the chairmanship of russia in the security council of the united nations organization, the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, dmytro kuleba , during an online discussion in the chat temhouse. well, he again, like the chief european diplomat, jose borel, said that this is such a stupid april fool's joke because precisely this chairmanship began on april 1, that is, in fact, no matter what vasyl said, it seems to me that something so arche-e catastrophic did not happen because russia is one of the 15 members of the security council of the united nations, which do not rotate on a monthly basis to chair this structure, that is, russia will not be able to influence the creation of the agenda, russia will no

the social security program offers security not only for workers but their family members too. including millions of children. the datahow that over one million more children would be living below the poverty level in 2021 if their families had not received social security benefits in addition, over one million ildren wh a qualifying disability recved ssi as of 2023. social security is also a critical lifeline for people with disabilities who are facing some of life's hardest moments. in fyi22, fsa paid over $200 billion to over 14 million ople. given the importance of our program to the well-being of individuals and families, when the pandemic hit and our field ofces needed to cse to walk in traffic, fsa quickly ansitioned. field office managers continued going into offices day after day and saw customer appointments with dire nee our office equipp employees to work from home and continue to assist custome by phone and online. online transactions increased from 50% of all transactions before the pandemic to about 60% now. in april 2022, we successfully resumed full in person s

and in the security council.have tried to block russia from taking over the presidency of the security council but the us, again, said there was no means to block moscow from the post. earlier, we spoke to larry korb, a senior fellow at center for american progress and former united states assistant secretary of defense. let's take a listen to his thoughts on why russia cannot be stopped from assuming presidency of the un security council. the united states, president biden�*s secretary, said we don't like it but we hope that russia will responsibly during the next month but as you mentioned, they were running the security council when the russians you know invaded ukraine illegally. find russians you know invaded ukraine illegally.— russians you know invaded ukraine illegally. and is there a bi aer ukraine illegally. and is there a bigger question _ ukraine illegally. and is there a bigger question here - ukraine illegally. and is there a bigger question here about| a bigger question here about the kind of releva

it comes down to three things -- security vendors need to own the security outcomes.hat's for their customers and proper vendors should divide radical transparency. where are you on the nsa roadmap and the memory safety roadmap? why are you charging extra for security laws. sso suld come at minimal extra cost. finally, it's this idea of this is quality, design quality. i.t. leaders should be focused on this from the top as a business decision. it's so impornt. we need software makers to be laser focused on software that is safe. >> you are absolutely right and what we just talked about at our last panel was the fact that there is an economic piece to software design. i don't think any software coders or any company says they want to build crappy software but there is a financial component to it. if you look at a digital camera, it's 10 years old. it's in the building and it's there but there is no economic incentive for that $25 camera to be updated. how do you build that into the lifespan so that like in lenox there is a time for how long it will be secure and then t

that is not within the agreement of the cyber security infrastructure security agency. i can only speak now to the work that we in the department of homeland security do. i will share with you with respect to the chinese spy balloon to which i think you referred that we shot it down because of the concern we had with respect to its purpose and identity. >> so you're comfortable that, other than a committal investigation, nobody in homeland security was reviewing private messages on twitter? >> to my knowledge, senator, that is the case. what i would like to do because you raise are very important issue, i can assure you that it is not our job, nor do we do it, to censor speech. what we do, what we do is we assess the threat landscape that this country confronts, so that we can secure the homeland and protect the american people. that is what we do. our office of intelligence and analysis has a responsibility which it fulfills, to understand that threat landscape, to understand what the threats are that we face. >> how many people do this? >> i would have to take a look

and so it is very important in the chaotic aftermath of the war to establish security. how much money are we talking about, and what is the thought of one government getting this money from more than a man has taken over the state apparatus and essentially not fired anybody. and they've used the same computer systems for tracking their finances that the previous government used. and so that's why, for example, the world bank and other analysts get good readouts of how the revenues work. that's how they are collecting something in the order of $2000000000.00 a year in state revenues. they've wiped out something like $1400000000.00 a year in corruption from the previous government. so even though they have cleaned house and, and very much reduced the levels of corruption that we're endemic under the previous regime, there is still a huge budget shortfall. and so that's why you see low spending by the taliban on things like health and education because they really are leaning on the international community to help with some of the service deliveries. how does the thought o

to do 5g security you are really talking about the concepts of securing the cloud. because th is how the architecture is broken down. and we took telecommuters -- tele-communication companies, high-tech vendors, and brought them together with the government threat expertise and put out a series of architec 5g's for security. we are now working on open ran well and if you up her -- a few other topics. those are long-term, joint government and industry security efforts. >> what is the difference between the collaborative -- collection center and the esf? dir. joyce: what is within the other. the difference is when i think of the work in the collaboration center, they are very focused on those threats, the threat actors and how do we give the threat actors a bad day? >> the new national strategy has a fair amount about securing the cloud in that. what would you suggest there, what needs to be done? dir. joyce: i guess a med review when you talk people who are customers, some are secure and some could be better. i think the currentush for secure by design is something w

the deputy homeland security advisor at the national security council. joshua, it's great to be with you. let me just start with the the big news paul recess of beginner. is soon going to be back in the united states. joe biden's white house made this a priority. tell us how it unfolded. why was paul recessive again, a high priority item on president biden's to do list. steve, thanks so much for the chance to join you for this conversation. and i think the story actually begins before president biden's inauguration begins during the transition. when jake sullivan, among others, the incoming national security adviser directed a number of us to hit the ground running on day one when it comes to bringing home americans held abroad. and during that transition, he asked a few of us who had worked on these types of issues in the past in government to make sure we were up to speed on current cases. and there were cases like all recessive beginners that began before day one that we in a sense, inherited as an administration some of that involve researching where those cases stood. some of it

that happened injuly 2022, and as you say, security has been bolstered.are on guard just in case anything could happen to be current prime minister. thankfully at the moment we are hearing that he is unharmed but there will be a lot of concern at the moment as to the security of the feminist are going forward. yes, and if you arejust joining us now, breaking news in the last hour or so that a smoke bomb has been lobbied at the prime minister injapan, the prime minister injapan, the prime minister ofjapan, a few months after the former minister shinzo abe was assassinated, fumio kishida was speaking at an event at a city called wakayama, and a man was removed from the scene from officials, a report that a pipe like object had been through near mr kishida. we know anything about how he is, his state at the moment, he has been taken away, he has been evacuated, do we know about how here's? , ., , ., ., here's? very little as to how here's? very little as to how he is, but — here's? very little as to how he is, but we _ here's? very little as to how he is, bu

supplemental security income is a different program than social security.is administered by the social security administration, but it is not what we are talking about today, just as a point of clarification and fact. ssi is different than social security. some of the other things that you said are true, except backwards. there was a maximum tax rate, and because of that, a maximum benefit rate. and it went in that direction. the idea is that social security is an insurance program. you pay into it, you earn your benefits when you become fully insured, and again, we could have had everybody paying in on all of their income from the beginning with a benefit structure that is very similar to what we have right now, it just returns less and less as you get up into those elon musk numbers of billions of dollars. host: bob, do you have a follow-up? caller: i believe he's wrong. social security was originally, as i believe, the ssi and all the other things that you are about have been added on between when that started and now. that is what i was talking about an