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Jack Lew
American
Public Servant
Born:
Aug 29
,
1955
Debt
Health
Job
People
Think
Work
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
Jack Lew
Service
People
World
Think
Higher
Terms
Make
Make A Difference
Calling
Than
Improve
Difference
Which
Public
Public Service
Lives
Career
Chance
We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.
Jack Lew
Future
Challenges
Win
Path
Will
Job
Long
Few
Creation
Down
Increasingly
President
Our
Deficits
Job Creation
We Cannot
Responsible
Tackling
Comprehensive
Put
Toward
Long-Term
Term
Budget
Economy
Fiscal
Years
Spur
Expand
Sustainability
Cannot
Plan
Us
Next
Payment
Growing
Why
In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
Jack Lew
Will
National
Other
President
Our
Deficit
Spending
Security
More
Share
Over
Since
Budget
Economy
Category
Freeze
Call
Reduce
Discretionary
Five-Year
Than
Decade
National Security
Dwight
Eisenhower
Next
Lowest
Billion
Bring
I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.
Jack Lew
Sense
Think
Shared
Fiscal
Issues
Urgency
Washington
There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.
Jack Lew
Work
Trust
Think
Built
Lot
Up
Being
Us
We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.
Jack Lew
Possibly
Would
Like
Obviously
Unemployment
Get
Low
The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.
Jack Lew
History
System
Out
Security
See
Look
Until
Sure
Deal
Making
Tradition
Years
Where
Social
Reason
Moment
Social Security
There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'
Jack Lew
Government
Pay
Our
Running
Overall
Policy
Fiscal
Question
Very
Bills
Serious
It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.
Jack Lew
Time
Pay
Back
Security
General
Social
Social Security
Fund
If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.
Jack Lew
You
Problem
Define
Solution
Never
Reach
Painful
Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.
Jack Lew
Government
Before
Way
Out
Find
About
Online
More
Go
Than
Taxpayers
Works
Ever
If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.
Jack Lew
Health
You
Cost
More
Look
Health Insurance
Without
Insurance
Does
Coverage
Provide
Contraceptive
Providing
Than
Plan
Actually
Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
Jack Lew
Books
Seeing
Make
Order
Decisions
Businesses
Based
Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.
Jack Lew
Voting
Responsibility
Party
Gone
Majority
Limit
Debt
Historically
Debt Limit
I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.
Jack Lew
Challenges
Long
Important
Confuse
Think
Deficit
Deficit Reduction
Security
Long-Term
Term
Importance
Dealing
Reduction
Issues
Very
Different
Short-Term
Social
Social Security
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