[Toddsterpatriot]

Our REAL Federal deficit is around $500 billion, if not more. That's the amount by which the national debt has increased from 2006 to 2007,

Why would you count debt held by the Trust Funds?

[Alberta's Child]

Because it's money that has to be paid but has no current source of revenue to pay for it.

Foreign investors aren't bailing out of their dollar holdings because of what they are seeing TODAY . . . they're bailing out because of what they see happening TOMORROW.