Word: surpluses
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...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...
...small businesses and folks who save for medical care. In all, about $80 billion in tax cuts have been approved in addition to those enacted in Bush's tax-cut measure. Where's the money coming from? Despite the economic downturn, the answer from House Republicans still is, the surplus...
...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...
...Funding with certain conditions: Most agree this is the most attractive path for Bush; researchers would be permitted to continue research on stem cells gathered from "surplus" embryos, those fertility center blastocysts that would be discarded anyway. Funding limitations would not permit the creation of embryos for the sole purpose of harvesting stem cells; Bush would also encourage more extensive research into the usefulness of adult stem cells...
...commission does, that they have the value of, say, Confederate dollars. What the commissioners left out is that no one believes Uncle Sam will have trouble raising money to repay the bonds. Though the system will inevitably run aground without reform, most experts believe the Treasury will have ample surplus cash to fund retirees at least until 2025 and perhaps as late as 2038. "If someone implies that in 2016 we have to raise taxes, cut spending or borrow more, they aren't telling the truth," says Brookings Institution fellow Gene Sperling, who was a top Clinton economic-policy aide...