[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3433]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     THE ONLY SURPLUS IN WASHINGTON

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, who is kidding whom? The only surplus in 
Washington, D.C., is in the Social Security trust fund. The truth is, 
Social Security money coming in one door today is going out the other 
door tomorrow, because the facts are very clear. The Social Security 
trust fund is a big basket full of IOUs. The reason is very simple: 
Politicians from both parties have reached in and borrowed money from 
the Social Security trust fund and have not repaid it. Billions and 
billions of dollars. Beam me up. Now we are saying Social Security is 
going to run out of money. I say not one dime of Social Security should 
be used for anything but Social Security.
  I yield back any economic common sense that may be left down here.

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