Word: surplus
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...firm in town, the White House?s own Office of Management and Budget. By changing the way Social Security?s payroll taxes were calculated and moving the Postal Service from its traditional spot on the retirement fund?s ledger, Daniels? crew came up with a $4.3 billion Social Security surplus surplus. Thanks to this "more accurate accounting," Fleischer was proud to report, the budget would be balanced, and if the lock box got opened it would be the Democrats? fault, not George W. Bush...
...come up with the extra $4.3 billion the White House desperately needed this week. With Democrats smelling blood in the water in the form of a Congressional Budget Office report that the federal government was billions in the red and would have to borrow money from the Social Security surplus - the "lock box" - to break even this year, finding some extra cash was a political necessity...
...discretionary spending growth is set to top out at 6 percent. Not bad work with a Congress coming off the 8-percent pork-fest that was Clinton?s last budget - and with a boss who couldn?t resist making additional spending requests of his own. If the original budget surplus estimate had only held up, there would have been plenty...
...loyal Reaganites, of course, a $1.3 trillion government diet pill was a soft sell. The tax cut was the surplus, and Washington was well rid of all that tempting extra cash. But to keep doomsaying Democrats from overrunning the place in 2002, Bush needs to prove to moderate skeptics that a Republican could cut taxes, build missile defense, boost education and balance a budget that began the year in a $125 billion surplus. But that money has quickly vanished. The tax cut took $78 billion in tax receipts and the idling economy another $40 billion, and Bush and the Democrats...
...from the Japanese mainland flock to the archipelago's 60 tropical islands precisely for its slice of red, white and blue, an ethos Okinawa cultivates. Reminders of Uncle Sam abound?America Mart, America Hotel and Club America. Restaurants offer steak, ice cream and hybrid dishes like taco rice. Military surplus stores sell American flak jackets, dog tags, camouflage pants and old grenades...