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Social insecurity

| April 8, 2010 9:00 PM

As if Americans didn’t have enough scary evidence that out-of-control federal debt and the sputtering economy pose a grave threat to prosperity, consider this: Social Security is about to start spending the excess money it has collected over the past 20-plus years, during which workers paid more into the system than the system paid out in benefits.

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