Monday, February 02, 2009

George Will: Congress Back at the Spending Buffet

President Johnson, to make the deficit numbers during the Vietnam War less scary, adopted the "unified budget," under which Social Security's surplus was mingled with general revenue, to disguise the size of the deficit and the debt. The true national debt is $56 trillion, not the widely reported $10 trillion. Yet Congress wants to spend more.

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