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To: ThirdEye who wrote (207131)	12/4/2001 8:32:27 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Where'd you find this? Link? TIA. /eom

To: ThirdEye who wrote (207131)	12/4/2001 8:41:14 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Respond to of 769670

<<The Bush administration's commission on Social Security reform issued its latest report last week, just as Enron entered its death throes. Most of the criticism of that commission's work, my own included, has focused on its, yes, Enron-like accounting: items seem to migrate onto or off the balance sheet to suit the commission's convenience. Thus when the Social Security system takes in more money than it pays out, as it does at present, this has no significance — the federal budget is unified, you see, so it doesn't mean anything when one particular piece of it is in surplus. But in 2016, when the Social Security system starts to pay out more than it takes in, there will be a crisis — Social Security, you see, must stand on its own. But the commission resorts to bogus accounting only to make the case ...>> nytimes.com