Kent Conrad actually said...

the budget problem that presents us with, instead of having several hundred billion dollars a year coming in from Social Security that we could send somewhere else, those days are over.

Context

Conrad highlights the end of surplus funds from Social Security for the budget.

01/06/2011

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