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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (65897)5/2/2008 1:54:21 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
If you can't kill them at will? Yes.

1 - Congress CAN kill Social Security at will. It won't, but it can.

2 - If you can't kill them at will, the proper answer is still "no". Likely, even near certain (or totally certain for that matter) future spending isn't current debt.

And if likely future spending was debt, than our national debt would be in the quadrillions, or maybe orders of magnitude more than that depending on future inflation, and how long you think the US government will continue.

Good thing the interest on this "debt" is 0%.
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