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Gloom and doom! Bush has raided the Trust Fund!
Posted on 04/02/2005 5:12:36 AM PST by HankReardon
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To: edweena
What would be the financial results (especially globally) of the U.S. government refusing to honor these bonds issued to the Social Security Administration? Wouldn't it be a rather high-profile alarm alerting other countries to stop financing U.S. debt?
The federal government could triple or cancel the so-called special bonds and pay SS benefits from the general fund without any effect on anyone whatsoever. Social Security does not represent an obligation to pay anyone while publicly held bonds do
Fleming v. Nestor, 363 US 603 (1960).
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04/02/2005 9:52:06 AM PST
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UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
To: GRRRRR
Actually .. I think there was originally .. but the dems were in power and decided they could borrow the money and just put a chit or IOU in it's place and put the money back later.
The dems were in power for 40 years - they had plenty of time to wreck SS long before Bush came into office.
People who blame everything on Bush are just vacant of brains.
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04/02/2005 4:12:52 PM PST
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CyberAnt
(President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
To: HankReardon
Social security will soon be beyond redemption. Medicare is already too far gone to fix.
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