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To: TimF who wrote (220379)	2/22/2005 10:43:20 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573718

When it starts drawing down the bonds the treasury will have to pay them back. To pay them back they need money from non SS taxes. Yeah ? And? The fed gov borrowed that money and is obligated to pay it back. Bush has the cart before the horse. One the one hand he is panicking the nation into a doomsday scenario which the SSA tells us arrives 37 years from now, at which point the SS can still pay 75% of the benefit...on the other he makes NO attemp to argue for policies that lead to the surplus required by the fed gov to re-pay the trust fund....the latter arrives only 13 short years from now. Al