Word: surplus
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...BILLION Projected U.S. budget deficit for 2002, down from a $236 billion surplus...
Unfortunately, the looming crisis is so enormous in monetary terms that not even the most Panglossian of optimists could hope to avert it with today’s surpluses. The unfunded liability of Social Security over the next 75 years is an astounding $25 trillion. For perspective, consider that the projected ten-year budget surplus before Bush’s tax cut, Sept. 11 and the recession was $5.6 trillion. That number is but 22.4 percent of the expected shortfall, and such surpluses will not continue when Social Security starts running annual deficits in the hundreds of billions ($252 billion...
...question is this: do these guys have a life? Democrats and Republicans fight about everything under the sun. Social Security, Medicare, the budget, the budget surplus, the budget deficit, prescription drugs, patients' rights, minimum wage, you name it, they're arguing about it now. Do these politicians lie awake at night and wonder to themselves, "Hmm? I wonder which piece of Democrat/GOP legislation can I oppose tomorrow morning...
LIKE A LOT OF GOVERNORS, YOU HAVE A BUDGET SHORTFALL. IS IT LESS FUN NOT HAVING MONEY? I went through three years of budget surplus, and that was difficult, because every special-interest group wants that money...
...known how the Erfurt shooter acquired his weapons, the deadly incident is a reminder that many believe Germany's gun problem isn't with its laws, but with existing weaponry. "Gun ownership was very high in the former East Germany, and when the Eastern bloc collapsed, those surplus military weapons flooded the private market," says Rebecca Peters, a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute, the philanthropic arm of the Soros Foundation in New York...