Reply #2: What we are complaining about is that the Bush administration [View All]

[JDPriestly]

spent so, so much more of the Social Security surplus and had no plan to pay it back.

Of course, the Social Security surplus was always there and was under the control of the Department of the Treasury. But the Bush administration gave that surplus away instead of replenishing it.

It did not need to be replenished until the baby boomers' retirement loomed. That is now, so now is when it needs to be replaced. It should not have been spent on the tax cuts to the rich or the wars.