Reply from Congressman Emanuel Cleaver concerning OrphanWorksActof 2008

[Christofer C. Bell]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:29 PM, rod <crimson.blue.2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Rhetorically inferring that social security is a contributing factor
> to the budget deficit is just blatantly wrong. (Maybe I misunderstood.
>  Were you trying to use satire to infer the opposite?)  Social
> security pulls in much more money from payroll taxes than what is paid
> out in benefits.   This SS surplus is figured into the budget deficit
> numbers, without it the budget deficit would look much worse.

This graph here illustrates your point:

http://zfacts.com/p/461.html

-- 
Chris