The news from Washington hasn’t changed much in the last few years- they are spending more then they are taking in; one perfect example of this is in the Social Security department; Even in 2011 Social Security had predicted a $46 billion cash shortfall for calendar 2011, very close to the $48 billion cash deficit that the CBO showed for fiscal 2011, which ended on Sept. 30. But CBO is also predicting a $60 billion cash shortfall for fiscal 2012, compare that with the $21 billion that Social Security predicted for 2012 last year, and you can see that government spending just continues to increase without the “real” money to back up its debt. And because Washington worries about an increasing cash flow deficit they continue to borrow from investors to help cover Social Security’s outgo. Currently the government is borrowing more than $1 trillion annually from investors to pay its bills; these are huge Social Security cash deficits. [...]