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because that's a lie.... the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 had a shortfall in income from FICA because the Federal government gave taxpayers a mini holiday from paying full fare. The Treasury did make up the shorted FICA income because it was caused by the special recovery stimulus not actually a true shortfall from low FICA collection. The other shortfalls were in 2009, 2012 and 2013 were also due to adjustments to the military's contribution to FICA. You really should read the footnotes to understand the meaning of the simplified summary numbers. Salient footnotes: Includes reimbursements from the General Fund of the Treasury to the OASI Trust Fund for: (1) the cost of noncontributory wage credits for military service before 1957; (2) the cost in 1971-82 of deemed wage credits for military service performed after 1956; (3) the cost of benefits to certain uninsured persons who attained age 72 before 1968; (4) the cost of payroll tax credits provided to employees in 1984 and self-employed persons in 1984-89 by Public Law 98-21; (5) the cost in 2009-13 of excluding certain self-employment earnings from SECA taxes under Public Law 110-246; and (6) payroll tax revenue forgone under the provisions of Public Laws 111-147, 111-312, 112-78, and 112-96. Also includes transfers of a portion of proceeds from repayments of loans authorized under Public Law 116-136.

got a link to GAO's explanation? The last time you provided a link to support your claim it fell apart after cursory examination.

I already explained it fully step by step. I can only explain it for you.... it's up to you to read and understand it. https://aseannow.com/topic/1361981-three-us-ex-presidents-denounce-the-current-one-in-a-two-week-stretch/?do=findComment&comment=19837190 Do you have any questions?

I only answer really really stoooopid questions on Leap Year day. Have you forgotten already???

You continually refer to the SS trust funds as being in deficit since 2010 because your favorite partisan publication says so. If you wish to refer to the retirement benefit trust fund only .... do not call it the Dept. of SS. Its proper name is OASI. The official historical revenue/expenses of OASI are given here: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4a1.html Apparently, I'm not 'the only person' who thinks the fund did not start declining in 2010 but did in 2021. You will see that in 2011 and 2012 significant funds from the Federal government general revenue stream were given to OASI. That happened because of special tax credits given as part of the recovery from the financial collapse from 2007 to 2009. The FICA taxes were temporarily refunded as a tax credit by the Feds. The Federal government did not want to make the OASI suffer from their decision to give tax payers a boost during the recovery.

Can you explain why you think that is a dire situation? EVERY Treasury bill is an IOU !!!! Thousands of Americans are holding those IOU's. Shirley that must be incestuous! By the way, what does IOU stand for.... quick now... don't ask google! I hope you don't consider that a brilliant deduction... LOL

That article contains a lot of nonsense. They lump the Treasury together with the SS trust fund balance so that they can declare that the SS trust fund balance is not an asset. Quoting from that article: Put another way, investing an initial Social Security surplus in Treasury bonds creates an asset for Social Security and an equal liability for the Treasury. Since both borrower and lender are part of the same federal government, the net effect on overall federal finances is to cancel each other out. This statement is correct. But, the US Treasury and the SS trust funds are completely separate entities and there is absolutely no reason to lump them together. They have no source of funding in common and they have no source of expense in common. Yes.. .they are both part of the US government but otherwise totally unrelated except for strictly a lender:borrower relationship. The same relationship that exists between the US Treasury and any other entity that buys Treasury bills. Counting those Treasury bonds as net wealth is the equivalent of raiding one’s own retirement savings to go on vacation, writing yourself an IOU to repay your retirement fund later, and then treating that IOU as new net wealth to offset the cost of the vacation. This statement is where the article goes completely off the rails. It is deliberately misleading. Nobody with an ounce of brain would be "counting those Treasury bonds as net wealth". As correctly stated in the article earlier those bonds are an asset held by the owner (SS trust funds) but are a liability for the Treasury. This is the exactly the case for every single Treasury bill sold. The article is meant to confuse the uneducated MAGA voters.

Are you still mad that the dog wouldn't play with you unless Mom tied a pork chop to your leg?

Guessing is so much easier than any other cerebral activity so I'm not surprised it's your default option. At least it's an honest expression showing your lack of desire to educate yourself or others.

Wow... you're all the way up to the repartire of a 13 year old.

Let me guess... you're not educated in statistical analysis, virology or public health. Those omissions make your opinion about as valuable as a used square of toilet paper. But of course you're entitled to hold it and express it politely.

That's interesting. All my inlaws are/were (RIP) great cooks and not one had an oven. Even my SIL who lived in US for years didn't use one. Do your inlaws cook Thai food in your oven? Do they cook food from central Thailand? All my relatives lived Bangkok, Ayuthya and Chachengsao were central cuisine reigns.

Your one line post asked why Thais don't have an oven. Rhetorical question?

What would they use it for? I have eaten many many different Thai dishes, probably more than a hundred. I don't think any required an oven. For cooking fish, Thais prefer deep fried or steamed. Some Thai recipes call for roasted shallots, onions, garlic, etc ... but those need constant tending so those are prepared over charcoal stoves. The only Thai dish my wife has used an oven for was beef jerky and she just couldn't reproduce the quality we got from our favorite restaurant. She does use our oven for many non Thai dishes.

After denying the rumor at the time, Corey Lewandowski later confirmed its accuracy. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-aide-says-paid-actors-for-2016-campaign-announcement-2021-7