On the recordDecember 1, 1997
on that point, if I could just reclaim my time for a minute, yes, those deficits that the American people and my colleagues Page H7899 talked about all through the late 1980s and the early 1990s, they took all of that Social Security surplus, they put it all in the big government checkbook, they wrote out checks out of the big government checkbook, overdrawing the checkbook by 200 billion a year, and that included spending all of the Social Security money
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