Reply #12: The candidate that tells the truth, that SS has been looted for

[rasputin1952]

years will be the one who has the right approach. There never was a "surplus" for the tax cutters to use. The money that was being taken in over the years would have been far more than needed to keep SS solvent for decades beyond the current situation.

The money was used to cover a host of projects, including massive tax cuts, war, the military, earmarks and all kinds of stuff that congress was just too cowardly to either address before the American people, or hold back their urges to spend the country into financial disaster. This goes for both parties, there is no line to draw between them.