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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1489638, member: 38849&quot;]Maybe (?) this is the story.&nbsp; From the Internet:</p><p><br /></p><p>[January 2012]&nbsp; In a letter to Congress earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Timothy&nbsp; Geithner said he would &quot;be unable to invest fully&quot; the federal employees&nbsp; retirement system, a tactic the federal government has had to employ&nbsp; six times over the past 20 years in order to remain under the statutory&nbsp; debt ceiling limit.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to shortchanging federal employee&nbsp; retirement, Geithner &quot;has already tapped another seldom-used fund in&nbsp; order to allow the government to continue borrowing without running&nbsp; afoul of the country&#039;s laws,&quot; according to Reuters, which of course&nbsp; didn&#039;t name the &quot;seldom-used fund.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The Treasury-sponsored raid this week <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/treasury-to-tap-pensions-to-help-fund-government/2011/05/15/AF2fqK4G_story.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/treasury-to-tap-pensions-to-help-fund-government/2011/05/15/AF2fqK4G_story.html" rel="nofollow">follows an earlier one in May 2011</a>,&nbsp; when Geithner once again took to stealing the retirement funds of&nbsp; unsuspecting federal workers in order to finance the voracious,&nbsp; expanding Leviathan State. Then as now, Congress dithered. And a&nbsp; question arises: Did Treasury replace the funds it raided, or did the&nbsp; department do what Congress did to the Social Security system - <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/16/social-security-ious-stashed-away-in-wva/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/16/social-security-ious-stashed-away-in-wva/" rel="nofollow">issue IOU&#039;s the government can never repay</a>?<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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