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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1208475, member: 3011&quot;]This is repeated so often that people sometimes begin to believe it.&nbsp; But let&#039;s look at the facts.&nbsp; In the case of Social Security, the tax receipts on a cumulative basis have exceeded the disbursements.&nbsp; So SS has actually DECREASED the national debt, not contributed to it.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.nasi.org/research/2010/social-security-finances-findings-2010-trustees-report" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nasi.org/research/2010/social-security-finances-findings-2010-trustees-report" rel="nofollow">http://www.nasi.org/research/2010/social-security-finances-findings-2010-trustees-report</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if you want to argue that SS will begin to contribute to the national debt a couple of decades in the future, then I will agree and say that something will have to be done.&nbsp; But no part of the $14+ trillion curren federal deficit is due to social security because life to date receipts have exceeded life to date disbursements.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I think it&#039;s pretty &quot;disney&quot; to believe that versions of the corruption that has gone on in third world countries has not driven up the debt here.&nbsp; The military industrial complex is the likely cause since there is almost no time anymore when the US isn&#039;t deployed to fight someone somewhere, and the bankers are more than happy to fund these conflicts so that various international corporations can feed off of it and send the bill to the American people.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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