Thanks Mr. President, MY BONEY OLD ASS! First of all Dubya didn't think this up, his "handlers" did. That fool never had an idea of his own in his whole life. Secondly, the whole thing was a phony. The checks aren't even all distributed yet, and already the administration is fixing to raid our Social Security for 9 billion bucks, because they just "discovered" that the "surplus" was nothing but smoke and mirrors. Anybody want to start a pool to guess when that $9 billion is going to be returned to Soc. Sec.? I'm marking my ballot "Never." Congress will probably slide this deal through like greasy catfish through a goose, because that parliament of whores don't worry about social security. Why would they? Have you ever seen the sweetheart pension deal they set up for themselves?