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> It is a huge pile but includes a 
> real time bomb.  Since Bush 1 the government has been diverting part of the 
> Social Security funds into "special Treasury Notes."  

Don, maybe you can help me understand this, then.   When SS money is 
collected in a given year, it goes to pay current benefits first.  Now days 
there is a 
surplus.  ALL that surplus goes into one government spending program or 
another in exchange for notes and bonds theoretically redeemable and 
spendable at 
some time in the future to help fund SS when there is a deficit.  How is what 
Bush is doing any different from that?  A note is a note, when it comes time 
to 
pay it, little odds what it was called.

James