---"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> The "Social Security trust fund" is bullshit. The government is
> required by law to invest the money in Treasury bonds. In other
words,
> the government loans Social Security income to itself and spends it.
> There ain't nothing in the trust fund but a little note reading
"I.O.U.
> $30 trillion - the Feds".
> --
We can generalize that further and say that anything a politician says
is bullshit. :)
==
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