Are we willing to get into the Social Security surplus?

The only place to find that money is the Social Security surplus.

In the meantime, the Social Security surplus goes to other purposes.

In the fiscal year 1993, $14.1 billion, or 15 percent of the Social Security surplus, would be paid into the fund.

The government will continue to run substantial Social Security surpluses, the administration said, including $157 billion this year.

Is he saying that last year's Social Security surplus did not enhance the government's future ability to pay benefits?

Last year the government paid off more than $200 billion in debt to the public, largely because of the Social Security surplus.

"But what's more important to us is not spending a dime of the Social Security surplus."

Social Security surpluses will rise to $12 trillion early in the next century.

They show the government spending a portion of the Social Security surplus each year for at least the next decade.