Poppycock. definition
Poppycock.. ’ I don’t know what it means, but it is often used by my good friend from South Carolina, the senior Senator. It sounds good. Everything he says is intriguing to me, just by his speaking style. But I do want to re- spond to the gist of what he was say- ing. The sham and the fraud which I think has been going on, which has been going on for years, is to suggest there is an easy solution. It is to sug- gest if you just left Social Security alone, didn’t use it for tax cuts or didn’t use it for spending, everything would be OK. My senior Senator doesn’t want to talk about 2042. I do. The reason I want to talk about 2018 and 2042 is I believe the reason I am here today is to pass on to the next generation a country very sound and very fit. If we do not address the prob- lem of having two workers for every re- tiree, versus 16.5 when I was born, then we are going to fail and commit polit- ical malpractice.