That to me says we certainly do not want to waste this money and that we want that in the green so they will have more of that flexibility. And that is the contrast here. Hundreds of billions of dollars of additional Social Security being spent on non-Social Security programs versus no Social Security money being spent on anything except Social Security, and when we do get to a true surplus, then deciding what we do with it.
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