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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (172407)	8/17/2001 4:19:12 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

The GOP are a bunch of rich, snobby, selfserving, antiscientific losers.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (172407)	8/17/2001 4:28:32 PM
From: Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Democrats and Republicans have lied for years about the surplus: From 1998: The government doesn't just "raid" the Social Security trust fund, as some critics have suggested, however. Rather, it notes how much it has borrowed and includes this in its calculation of the total Federal debt. To date, the government has "borrowed" $1.75 trillion from various trust funds (Social Security is the largest source, but the government also borrows from Medicare, military retirement, and other trust funds), and this year it will borrow another $184 billion. However, this increase in borrowing from trust funds also gets reflected in the unified budget as revenue, which is why we appear to have a growing surplus. epf.org Only now since a Republican is in the White House, do you blame the Republicans. The bottom line is we have a government out of control spending wise. Both parties are guilty. The answer is to slash spending across the board but it will never happen.