On Apr 27, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > At that point the only thing preventing the program shortfall from being > filled by general revenue, as before, is politics.
You make that sound trivial. Given the budget idiocy going on now, do you think that's going to be easy? But the whole thing is preposterous. It makes no economic sense to try to accumulate savings by borrowing from yourself. It all has to be funded by income in the present - SS is a pay-as-you-go scheme. If the U.S. were a small country with a big sovereign wealth fund that could invest abroad and then draw down the funds as needed, it would be a completely different story. But we're not. The whole surplus thing was just kicking the can down the road. Doug _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
