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October 15, 2012 at 8:06 pm
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Thanks for the links. So as I understand it, SS is running surpluses for the time being due to favorable demographics, but that money isn’t being stored in a vault for later. It is being spent right now for other uses, with the government essentially owing taxpayers an IOU plus interest.
I knew something had to be wrong with Greenwald’s assertion. I trust him on most foreign policy matters, but economics is a different story.