The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that revenue from Social Security payroll taxes will decline in fiscal 2009. Next year, the Social Security surplus from all revenues except interest income will fall to $3 billion, $83 billion less than last year’s CBO projection for 2010. In 2008, that cash surplus was $72 billion, which the federal government borrowed and spent on other programs.

Now, I’ve been known to gamble. Not in vegas. The market is rsky enough for me. And I do stare at the sun.. but that sounds like a giant shit storm I was hoping wouldn’t hit quite yet.