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Re: [Pen-l] Social security


On Dec 21, 2008, at 4:05 PM, David B. Shemano wrote:
...something is going to occur when expenditures exceed taxes -- without the ability to spend the surplus, SS will become a drag on other spending, and Congress is not going to like that...

The only thing that the 635 politicians making up Congress really hate is *not being reelected*.  "A drag on other spending" is like growing old--quite distasteful until you consider the alternative.  

Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos
 

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