Earl Blumenauer said "Talking about locking us into $500 billion up to maybe improve up to $350 or $370 billion and then trailing off again to that half trillion dollar level, what, in fact, if I understand what the gentleman is saying, that we are consuming, on top of that, all of the Social Security surplus; so actually it is approaching, over the life of what we can project with reasonable accuracy, a trillion dollars in ultimate debt compounded, this is added, year after year after year." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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Talking about locking us into $500 billion up to maybe improve up to $350 or $370 billion and then trailing off again to that half trillion dollar level, what, in fact, if I understand what the gentleman is saying, that we are consuming, on top of that, all of the Social Security surplus; so actually it is approaching, over the life of what we can project with reasonable accuracy, a trillion dollars in ultimate debt compounded, this is added, year after year after year.

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Earl Blumenauer

Democratic · Oregon

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of federal debt and Social Security surplus.

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