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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] [i]Therefor looking to fund the SDI initiative based upon a projected surplus is indulging in fancy.[/i] Which is why we wait until we actually have the money to build SDI. No one is proposing that we do it NOW. We don't even have the technology perfected yet. If the surplus doesn't materialize, well, tough noogies, I guess. Maybe we can kill some stupid program out there that's a waste of money and use those funds. [i]I believe it is wrong to view Social Security as just another part of the general fund however.[/i] That is where the money you pay goes, and where the money your grandfather receives comes from. It IS part of the general fund now. It shouldn't be, though, and that's part of what Bush was trying to fix. I'd bet it just got kicked down a couple years on the priority list, though. [i]The monies in the Social Security Trust Fund have in a sence been spent already as future payments to retirees.[/i] There is no trust fund. Your SS taxes have been spent on EXISTING retirees. [i]With the huge emergency outlays by Congress in recent days, and the fact that predictions of the surplus are precarious at best, and with shaky economic news combined with my strong belief that the domestic side of policy can not be overlooked too long during all of this brings me to the conclusion that the United States can not afford to pursue this unproven, expensive and divisive idea.[/i] One problem with this: the word "can". As in "can not afford". Try "may not be able to afford". I say we wait and see if the money's there when we can actually use it. There's no way to know to any degree of certainty. So, shall we declare the budgetary side of this a stalemate until 2003? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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