cooking SS numbers

[Seth Ackerman]

Brad DeLong wrote:

> Well, we got mostly bad news about economic growth from 1980 to 1994. 
> I think that the Social Security actuaries' estimates of productivity 
> growth, immigration, and life expectancy are all too low. But I do 
> not believe that the trustees alter the assumptions: when I was in 
> Washington the assumptions that came out of the trustees' meeting 
> were the assumptions that went in...
> 
> 
	Then why are the actuaries' recommendations kept secret?

	Seth