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Back when Barack Obama was pushing for a public option in the new national healthcare system, he raised eyebrows with an out-of-nowhere remark about the U.S. Postal Service.
It happened last August at a town hall in Colorado. Obama claimed Americans shouldn't be afraid of a government insurance company -- the public option -- competing against private insurers, because even though the government has vastly more resources than any individual company, "You've got a lot of private companies who do very well competing against the government -- UPS and FedEx are doing a lot better than the post office."
Obama apparently...
As Government Expands, Beware the Post Office Example
They simply could not allow that much money to stack up without spending it on something.
Actually, from what I understand,the SS has enough money coming in for a number of years - except that the government has established a need to take millions each year. If they don't something else will suffer cuts. And they believe that taxpayers will be more willing to pay into a fund they may hope to get some money back later than to support the items they actually use the money for.