[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Well, as we’ve seen, the first thing you do is make sure not to start the program until almost halfway through CBO’s window of time for measuring how much it’ll cost. That cuts a trillion or two right off the top.

And completely ignores the question that NOBODY is asking, Just how much of the increased taxes collected over four years is expected to be still around (in the "lock box") when 2014 rolls around and it's time to start paying out the bennies? If Social Security is any indicator there will be trillions of dollars worth of bad paper (Federal IOU's), sitting in a desk drawer someplace courtesy of the same shysters who have treated Social Security and Medicare as their private slush fund.

Regards,
GtG

[fso301]

And completely ignores the question that NOBODY is asking, Just how much of the increased taxes collected over four years is expected to be still around (in the "lock box") when 2014 rolls around

I think they'll be around through Nov 2012 in order that hussein can use them to offset the deficit.