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To: Road Walker who wrote (397038)	7/8/2008 2:03:14 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575737

A dollar is a dollar, it doesn't know if it's a SS dollar or not. So it's just part of the deficit No, it isn't. Because the SS deficit isn't included in the general fund deficit, and because SS was supposed to be funded, in its entirety, from the FICA tax revenue. What has happened, of course, is that benefits have outstripped the revenue, and will continue to do so for a long time to come. Unfortunately, this is the way of big government programs. They all do it. Medicare. IRS (via EITC). SS. DOE. HHS. Welfare, in general. And the same thing will happen when you nationalize health insurance. These programs become political footballs, the demand on the national resources becomes higher and higher without bound.