Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs

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For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits _ billions more each year.

Not anymore. This year, for the first time since the 1980s, when Congress last overhauled Social Security, the retirement program is projected to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes _ nearly $29 billion more.

Sounds like a good time to start tapping the nest egg.

Too bad the federal government already spent that money over the years on other programs... Now the government will have to borrow even more money, much of it abroad, to start paying back the IOUs, and the timing couldn't be worse...

The government is projected to post a record $1.5 trillion budget deficit this year, followed by trillion dollar deficits for years to come...

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