U.S. Should Pay Back Its Debts With ‘Surplus’
At last a journalist with the courage to tell it like it is. Columnist James Flanigan’s “Using Tomorrow’s Pensions to Create ‘Surpluses’ Today” [Feb. 22] is the first time a reporter has understood the shell game that is going on in Washington with the Social Security Trust Fund.
Now maybe President Clinton and Congress will stop trying to hoodwink us about how to save Social Security.
The answer is simple. Pay back what has been “borrowed” in the past.
RUBIN GREEN
Playa del Rey
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