[lbo-talk] Kuchinich explains backing Obama over Edwards

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Tue Jan 8 12:17:38 PST 2008



>> Why don't you support it?
>
> First the context for this is "fixing" the long-run actuarial
> gap, which means pre-funding -- running more Trust Fund surpluses
> now to make the gap in the projections go away.

But don't surplusses just drain into the general fund? They don't actually 'pre-fund' anything other than the projections themselves, right? :-)


> I'm against pre-funding of any type.

Sure, it's kind of a stupid concept.

How do you like my proposal, not that I'm running.

/jordan



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list