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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.
354F3A35.FIN Page 4 of 12 http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd009/aprl998/354f3a35.html 1/5/2010 most of the people I know and most of the people I grew up with at horr middle class people. About half of them went to college, half of them di They live on modest incomes. They are panicked with the thought that e the Social Security system won't be there for them, or, if it is there, the price will be so expensive for our children that they won't have the money the to raise our grandchildren. And we don't believe that should happen. So I cannot overemphasize what I believe is the importance of that. The to have this year, among other things, four big regional, bipartisan, hope nonpartisan, meetings and a whole other series of actions which will res the end of this year, the first of next year, in a proposal that will make th Social Security trust fund viable far beyond the present plan, which is 2< which coincidentally is the year that all the baby boomers get into -- are over. That will take it out there so that young people -- interestingly eno a recent poll showed that young people in their 20s thought it was more that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security. (Laughter.) I like the X-Files, but I don't like that statistic. (Laughter.) So what we want to do is to run the Social Security trust fund out there, how we're going to do it — it may or may not take the projected surplus^ the next 10 years, it may or may not. And then we can decide what to de second thing we've got to do is keep the balanced budget in place. Nothi do - it may vary from year to year. If the economy goes downhill, you kno get less tax dollars and you have to spend more for unemployed people, structurally we have eliminated the deficit; the built-in big deficit that v, from 1981 forward is now gone. So now if you see a deficit come up, yr know it's just because there's been a dip in the economy - if we stay with the pattern of discipline we have now. And when we all retire, there will only be about two people working for one person drawing Social Security if we continue to retire at present ra And keep in mind, a lot of people are retiring well before 65 now. Now, seems to me that we have to understand that at least our generation, the baby b We know that if we make modest changes now to prepare for this, they have almost no destructive impact on us when we retire, but they will guarani our children will be able to enjoy the same sort of opportunities - hopel even greater opportunities than we have. That, I think, is very important for our long-term financial health. You c see in the troubles these other countries are having economically what h if
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