"The better course is to stop sending the wealthy benefits they do not need..."
That sounds to me like "means testing", and that's the slippery slope that would inevitably end up turning social security into strictly another welfare program for the bums, deadbeats, losers, and parasites who comprise the Democrat party base.
"Wealthy" would continually be defined down until it included everybody who ever had an IRA or a 401k. No thanks, Mitch. Either give people the opportunity to opt out (ie., not pay into) or stuff that idea where the sun don't shine.
That’s exactly my take. After paying max social security and funding my 401k, I object to being means tested out of what was confiscated involuntarily.
No awful. Some good points. But his attack upon the wealthy. His weak attack on Obaba. Kind of a “warm soup” speech. No bad. But it felt like a RINO trying to appeal to conservatives.