Dear Rusty: Sometimes words used have different meaning to others, like your recent article on the Social Security Trust Fund. In a true trust fund, monies are only used for a specific purpose. Our so-called Social Security Trust Fund doesnt work like that. Instead, money collected goes directly into the US Treasury, mixed up with everything else. To the government, Social Security is just another revenue stream. They dont separate it from others and have no intention of doing so. Soon, weve been told, the Social Security fund will be declared insolvent. It should never happen but when you spend every penny that comes in on everything else, when the real purpose needs it the well is dry. Lock up the money so that the politi…
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