First, there IS NO SURPLUS! The whole "surplus" business is smoke and mirrors, "creative accounting", a political football of the first water.

SEcond, if there really WERE a surplus, it shouldn't be dissipated as a political popularity-buying scheme like this. If there WERE a real surplus, it should have been used in one of two ways:
To reduce the public debt, and/or
To shore up the Social Security, which has been robbed blind for sixty or so years.

Dave Oesterreich