PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – President Bush on Tuesday turned a government file cabinet in the hills of West Virginia into his Exhibit A for why Social Security needs urgent change.
To dramatize Social Security's future solvency problem, the president peered into the four-drawer ivory cabinet inside the Bureau of Public Debt office here along the Ohio River. In the second drawer was a white three-ring binder filled with pieces of paper providing physical evidence of $1.7 trillion in treasury bonds that back Social Security benefits.
"Imagine," Bush said in a speech a short time later at West Virginia University at Parkersburg. "The retirement security for future generations is sitting in a filing cabinet.
На что это он намекает? Что treasury bonds - просто бумага?

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