Readers' forum: Social Security Trust Fund

Published: Friday, July 29 2011 12:00 a.m. MDT

Summary

Bob Bennett's recent article ("Tax revenue created by jobs, not budgets," July 25) was very informative. However, he stated that during the baby boomer years the Social Security Trust Fund grew.

Where is that healthy trust fund now? Like most politicians he failed to explain that Congress "borrowed" from that fund and never paid the money back. So now that the fund is not large enough to support the baby boomers, he and the current politicians in Congress want to cut the amount paid to those who actually paid into the trust fund.

I have a better idea. Cut the billions of dollars in entitlements we pay in foreign aid and welfare and health care we pay to illegal immigrants.

Use that money to pay back the money Congress borrowed from the trust fund.

Brad Merritt

Woodland Hills

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Roland Kayser

Cottonwood Heights, UT

I have just one wish. I wish that all of the people who write in to complain about spending and budgets would take just a few minutes to actually look at the budget and see how the money is really spent. We see proposals like this author's all the More..

6:28 a.m. July 29, 2011
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The Real Maverick

Orem, UT

Just imagine if all the money wasted away in Bush's wars and nation building would have been spent domestically on our roads, schools, border patrol, and health care.

8:36 a.m. July 29, 2011
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ECR

Burke, VA

Fitness Freak makes the exaggerated claim that "The amount the federal govt. spends on "free stuff" for illegal trespassers is between 100-120 billion."

The Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that advocates More..

9:04 a.m. July 29, 2011
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