[Toddsterpatriot]

You aren't writing an IOU to yourself in the particular case, you have sold a non-negotiable certificate of credit to a trust fund promising to use future tax revenues to pay the trust back and have used the proceeds to buy that which is outside the trust fund.

So the taxpayers have written the taxpayers an IOU.

If you stick by your lack of logic, the case could be made.

Be more specific, where was my lack of logic?

Obviously Al Gore is economically illiterate. You want to use him as your economic guide, all I can say is "Garbage in Garbage out."

Al Gore is in no way my economic guide. I just wanted to show that his error and american spirits error would cancel each other out.

I know that Social Security is a terrible investment, as currently structured. But thanks for the links and graph. Maybe american spirit will follow your links and figure out the truth.

[ancient_geezer]

The facts speak for themselves.

Good day to you.