evidence: MONTANARO: You know, Social Security and Medicare are the biggest drivers of the national debt, the more than $30 trillion in national debt. But neither party really wants to touch either one. I have to say, with Social Security, we've, you know, been through some of these negotiations and fights before. And the Social Security fixes are far easier than the Medicare ones. [...] DAVIS: So the Cassidy-King idea is that you create, essentially, an independent investment fund separate from Social Security. So the fund would bear all the risk, not the taxpayer. And yes, Congress would have to initially seed the fund. He proposes $1.5 trillion, not an insignificant amount of money, over five years, and you let it be managed by people independent from Congress so it would be sort of protected from political influence. And it exists to be invested in the market and grow over the course of literally 70 years, and the idea being that the fund would basically be able to cover up to 75% of the insolvency issues.