I notice some of the gentleman's numbers are slightly different than the numbers I was using. I think we need to explain that these numbers are with the unified budget. The ones I was using were what are called on-budget, which means that you save the $150 billion in Social Security and Medicare surpluses. That $521 billion assumes that you have spent through that already, before you start counting the deficit.
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