http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...ress101099.htm

I found this...don't have much time right now


In effect, Congresses and presidents of both parties have been treating the Social Security surplus like a bank account ever since 1983, when Reagan and the Democratic Congress bailed out the program by raising payroll taxes and making other fixes. Since then, by one estimate, both parties have spent more than $600 billion in Social Security surpluses. For years, Social Security surpluses made the deficits in the rest of the government look smaller or, beginning in 1998, evaporate, when the Social Security surplus helped balance the federal budget for the first time since 1969.

yes Clinton is to blame too...before you kill me