This week's "Dumbing Down" Award: "Still to come this morning on
'Today' we're gonna tell you about Social Security reform. Don't worry if you're confused -- it makes us all scratch our heads too -- so we're gonna try to figure it out as we give you Social Security for Dummies --
........and we include ourselves in that category by the way." --NBC's Katie Couric **Careful -- don't hurt yourself, Katie!"
The above is from Federalist Patriot, Feb. 23, '05
Social Security Trust Fund. = Trust us to spend the money and replace it with IOU's we wrote to ourselves. This would be like you or me writing ourself an IOU for a million bucks, and showing it to the bank as an asset.