On the recordJuly 28, 2014
Social Security? With $2.8 trillion in reserves? Is that a crisis today? No, I would call a federal budget operating deficit in the hundreds of billions as something that we have to tackle today.
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SAM JOHNSON argues Social Security is not in crisis compared to the federal budget deficit.
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