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Right on!!. I turned from conspiracy theories to believing that sheer ignorance is a better explanation for the way they write their "news" stories. Most of these journalists are too young to remember when Pres. Johnson (Dem) and the Senate (Dem) and the House (Dem) thought of a great new idea of going to a "unified" budget. Although Social Security was doomed to fail from the start, the unified budget was a major turning point in the Soc Security road. The unified budget turned the "trust fund" into a very public sham. At the same time Democrat politicians began to make more and more of an issue of "keeping the trust fund" safe.

Just ask the Democrat party and leaders if they would be willing to apply the same laws on pensions (ERISA, etc.) and Securities laws on Social Security. Either you will send them off doing double speak, or they will flat out lie about the situation.

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Most of these journalists are too young to remember when Pres. Johnson (Dem) and the Senate (Dem) and the House (Dem) thought of a great new idea of going to a "unified" budget.

1966. I remember it well.

"Mah frenns -- and yew ARE mah frenns -- the gummint has these two pots. And, in this heah pot, the money is goin' out faster than it's comin' in. Thass what we call a dafficit!
"But this udder pot, ovah heah, it's got mo' money comin' than is goin' out. Thass what we call a suhrPLUSSS!
"Now, if we put these two pots of money togethah, thar'd be as much comin' in as whut wuz goin' out. Thass what we call a bahllanced budgit!
"And, mah frenns, that iz whut we agonna do -- bahllance the budgit so's we can faht two wahrs at oncet. That wahr over thar in Viet Nam...and that wahr raht heah in the U.S. of A., The Wahr on Pahvitty. And we agonna win both o' them wahrs, mah frenns."

I knew, the instant I heard it, that we were in deep, deep doo-doo. I was only in my mid-twenties at the time...and I couldn't grasp why everybody didn't understand that the spending tap had been turned "ON" -- and was likely to stay there for a generation or two.