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To: i-node who wrote (466789)	3/27/2009 1:00:24 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575171

Inode, I find it funny that those saying Social Security is "solid" are the same people who think trillions of dollars of deficit spending is just fine as long as it's a liberal who's doing it. Remember, it's all about "ideology" ... ROFL Tenchusatsu

To: i-node who wrote (466789)	3/27/2009 1:07:23 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575171

You're wrong. The SS Trustees report says it's 100% solvent until 2042 and then, with no changes, could pay 75% of benefits for the rest of the 75 year projection period. With modest changes, it's 100% solvent throughout the 75 years. And this is with relatively conservative growth projections. Reality has consistently outperformed the Trustees projections. The propagandists among us have tried to tell us that a potential deficit confronting SS in 2042 is a crisis today. Yet theses same people, for the last 8 years, have presided over a government which every single day, every single year, spent more money than it took in. Never once did they treat these real deficits happening now, not projected to happen in 30+ years, as a crisis. (Could you imagine if the US was projected to be deficit free until 2042? We'd be dancing in the streets, not screaming "crisis.") People pushing such dishonest propaganda about SS are not to be taken seriously. And thankfully, nowadays, they're not. SD