Lloyd Parker wrote:
>
> In article >,
> DTJ > wrote:
> >On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:42:15 -0500, "Vendicar Decarian" >
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>"DTJ" > wrote in message
> >>> You liberals sure like to throw around make believe terms about
> >>> government.
> >>
> >>By now it's well known how Bush turned the $127 billion surplus he
> >>inherited in 2001 into a historic $413 billion deficit by 2004. It's
> >
> >Hey retard, there was no surplus. Your "lockbox" for SS was a fraud,
> >and your favorite Ken Lay supporter, slick willy klinton, used all the
> >SS money to make it appear, to low life incompetent fools like
> >yourself, that he had a surplus.
> >
> >
> 1. SS has a surplus, a trust fund, that is invested in gov't bonds.
> 2. For 2 years under Clinton, the gov't had a surplus, not counting SS.

Item 2 is not true. They did include the SS revenue when
declaring a surplus. As for "1" while technically true, the
money is spent and the "investment" is little more than a
bookkeeping fiction.


Ed