Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Re: Starving people-valentines Message-ID: <284@talcott.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 11:43:51 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.284 Posted: Fri Feb 22 11:43:51 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Feb-85 01:25:20 EST References: <2395@hplabsc.UUCP> <324@cadre.ARPA> <266@oliveb.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 23 > In article gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) writes: > | > (For your info, Reagan has done just that: cut ss, increased bombs, etc.) > | > | about YOUR source, but MY source (namely Congress, i.e. the 1985 Budget in > | Brief) says that social security has been increasing at 10% a year or so. > > You both may be right. If the amount of money allocated in each new bud- > get is great than it the the amount allocated for the last year, the percen- > tage of money from the budget that social security gets can go down, while at > the same time, the percentage of money that social security gets greater than > it did the previous year can go up. 1) The percentage has stayed about the same. 2) I don't know about you, but when I say "cut spending", I mean decrease, as in diminish, as in make smaller, etc. Even taking inflation into account, Social Security has NOT been cut. --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was: an Arctic wasteland, covered with ice." -Steve Martin