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That's because when the bean counters counted the beans and predicted there would be an extra $1 trillion in 10 years, not counting Social Security revenues, it was assumed that lawmakers would obey the laws they had written and slash future spending by billions of dollars. If lawmakers bail, then there's less extra money to pay down the debt. Republican proposals so far, rather than cutting spending, would increase it next year about $25 billion, which more than wipes out next year's projected $14 billion surplus. The only place to find that money is to raise taxes...
...this time around, both sides have promised not to touch the Social Security surplus, which will run about $147 billion next year. Republican leaders don't want to take the blame for scooping out an extra $14 billion just to keep the government running--especially after conservatives got so angry with them when they did it in 1998. "This year, if spending means so much to him, the President will have to justify dipping into the Social Security trust fund," says John Czwartacki, spokesman for Senate majority leader Trent Lott...
These battles between the Euroskeptics, who championed national sovereignty and worried that a British monetary union with Europe would weaken the county's economy, and the Europhiles, who saw an extra-national union as the way to the U.K.'s salvation, wore Major down...
...Hollywood, there is resentment against Harvard people," Oakley says. "Sometimes people have to go through extra hoops because people think they have coasted by on their Harvard friends...
...When a phone call comes in from a Harvard student, a Harvard graduate will be more likely to take the extra five minutes," says Gregory S. Gottlieb, a consultant and recruiting director at Boston Consulting Group who attended Stanford as an undergraduate and the Wharton School of Business...