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This release contains White House Exchange Mail records dated January 1998 to October 1999. Most of it is a transcript of a January 29, 1998 press briefing by Press Secretary Mike McCurry covering Iraq, Iran, the budget and the Lewinsky inquiry, plus a 1998 presidential speech. An October 19, 1999 email among Transnational Threats staff forwards a Florida Today article on how scientists expect alien contact would spark a media frenzy rather than a cover-up, describing the 1989 SETI detection protocol.
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34FE5F7E.FIN Page 9 of 12 other things will have to be done, as well. That will not be enough. whatever. But this is what is going to happen unless we change, if we cl now we can make a big difference. I should also point out that Social Security also goes to the spouses of pi seen in terms of these economic realities. http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/febl998/34fe5f7e.html 1/5/2010 directions to run this 2029 number well out into the future in ways that a keep Social Security's role in providing some retirement security to peoj without unfairly burdening your generation and your ability to raise you children to do that. And I can tell you, I have had countless talks with b; boomers of all income groups and I haven't found a single person in my generation who is not absolutely determined to fix this in a way that does not unfai: burden your generation. But we have to start now. And if nothing is done by 2029, there will be a deficit in the Social Sect trust fund, which will either require — if you just wait until then — a hug tax increase in the payroll tax, or just about a 25 percent cut in Social Security benefits. And let me say today, Social Security — I want to put in, too, because I want you all to start thinking about this — Social Secui was conceived as giving a floor for life. It is not enough to sustain the standard of living of almost any retiree retiring today. Now, again I say, if we act soon, less is more. If we can develop a const as a country to act soon we can take relatively modest steps in any numl We have to join together and face the facts. We have to rise above partisanship, just the way we did when we forced the historic balanced budget agreement. This is — as you can well see, this is reducible to stark mathematical terms. This need not become a partisan debate. Oh, there ( to be a debate, a good debate on what the best way to invest the funds are. There So you also will have to make provisions for your own retirement savin; and you should start early when you go out and go to work, with a 401 (k) pl when their widowed. Social Security also goes to the disabled. There's a Social Security disability program. Cassandra Wilkins, who's here with us, wh< Vice President recognized, ran the Social Security disability program for me I was governor. It's a very important program. But all of these things shoi
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