Documents / Official release
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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Page 6 of 8 If we act now, we can ensure strong retirement benefits for the baby boc http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd009/aprl998/354980ed.html 1/5/2010 Now, here's the bottom line. The Social Security Trust Fund is sufficien to pay all the obligations of Social Security - both retirement and disabilit until 2029, after which it will no longer cover those obligations. Payroll contributions will only be enough to cover 75 cents on the dollar of current benefits. So how should we judge the proposals to change the Social Security system? Here are principles that I believe we should follow, and they're on the next ch generation without placing an undue burden on our children and grandchildren. And we can do it, if we act now, with changes that will be far simpler ai easier than if we wait until the problem is closer at hand. For example, a $100 billion of the budget surplus, if used for Social Security, would add a year or more to the solvency of the Trust Fund with no other changes being made. Othei changes, which could be made, can be phased in over time, and keep in mind, sm changes decided on now can have huge impacts 30 years from now. here. I believe, first of all, we have to reform Social Security in a way tl strengthens and protects a guarantee for the 21st century. We should not abandon a basic program that has been one of the greatest successes in our country's history. Third, Social Security must provide a benefit that people can count on. Regardless of the ups and downs of the economy or the financial markei we have Second, we should maintain universality and fairness. For half a centurj this has been a progressive guarantee for citizens; we have to keep it that wa It was not until 1985 that the poverty rate among seniors was lower than tl poverty rate for the population of America as a whole. It is an astonishing achievement of our society that it is now so much lower, and we should not give it up 354980ED.FIN *
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