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Here's a problem that the corrupt Bush administration has managed to solve. In spades (mind the space):
http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/02/econ/econ.10. html
Surplus, but No Gravy Train
David Francis, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BOSTON -- The budget surplus is arriving faster - and perhaps growing bigger - than Washington expected.
Just last month, President Clinton's budget forecast a $10 billion deficit this fiscal year.
"Nah!" say business economists. The nation will enjoy a handsome surplus. Congress can't and won't do much to alter that happy prediction.
"To be conservative, a minimum $50 billion surplus," says Fred Ross, a consultant at the Washington Research Group. "It could be as high as $70 billion to $80 billion."
The Congressional Budget Office, more conservative, forecast a $5 billion to $10 billion surplus Friday.
But don't look for big tax cuts or costly new spending programs as a result.
Washington observers expect Congress to use the bulk of any surplus in the next few years to pay down the $3.8 trillion in federal debt held by the public.
Another option is to stuff surpluses in the Social Security Trust Fund.
Tucking away 10 years of surpluses outlined in the budget could make a sizable dent in Social Security's long-term projected deficit, cutting it by a third, reckons Henry Aaron, an economist at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
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What to do with all that money? Not a problem anymore! The Bushistas simply funneled it into the pockets of their overrich benefactors, and now you folks who were counting on Social Security and Medicare can just go eat rocks for all they care.
Oh, and the price of rocks is going up, too.
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