The federal budget, deficit, and the Social Security fund. http://www.ssa.gov/history/genrev.html http://www.urban.org/publications/309227.html http://www.urban.org/publications/900268.html The chart at the below URL illustrates the raid on Social Security for general revenues, beginning in earnest in 1987. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE2/budget.html Hope this adds information to what was mentioned. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------- Austin Mennonite Church, (512) 926-3121 www.mennochurch.org To unsubscribe: use subject "unsubscribe" sent to amc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx