Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx wrote: What I wonder, really, is why we even care about how awful the social security account is when we don't really care, one bit, how awful the deficit is. I mean--really. Debt is debt. Does it really matter if we just add on a little bit more to what our deficit is? What's meant by 'how awful the Social Security account is'? Are you saying that Social Security is somehow responsible for the tremendous national debt that Bush has incurred on our behalf? Robert Paul Reed College ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html