Before September eleventh, the economy was already in trouble and the Social Security issue was finally on the front burner making headlines and appearing in editorials all over the country. The bare bones of the government's scam were coming out in the open. Soon, even the thickest of numskulls would see through the government's camouflage and understand the rip-off. It was a very dangerous time for the Beltway Bandits.

Trust funds that aren't lock-boxes, never hold money, and are just debit black holes filled with debt, counterfeit securities or markers against future taxes. Debit accounts that can't be raided. Lock-boxes that never became law, rules, or even general agreement. Pretense and falsehoods thrown up to disguise the theft of hundreds of billions in entitlement payments, of which Social Security is only one part. These are just some of the spin tools of a dishonest government.

To top it off, politicians, bureaucrats, and their loyal press were scurrying all over the place making false statements and throwing out false numbers that would never stand up to the light of day when the bank made its final report in a matter of weeks. It was almost as though the crooks knew that they would never have to stand behind their lies and accusations or have these falsehoods come back to haunt them.

Well, the final statement is out. Fiscal 2001 closed at the end of September and the Treasury issued its final year-end monthly statement. And guess what, the national debt went up $133.3 billion while the nation enjoyed the second largest surplus in history, a surplus of $127.2 billion.

Remember the bugaboos about running a deficit? How the public has been taught that deficits are as evil as communism? Well, the "on budget" numbers were a whopping minus, a deficit of, $33.5 billion in fiscal 2001. Of course, this was offset by the theft of $160.7 billion from entitlements, of which only $99 billion came from Social Security profits. Excess money the government raked in despite high unemployment and a declining economy. Your extra retirement payments stolen and spent elsewhere instead of working for you.

The most interesting figure of all comes from the debt laundering operation that's been underway since 1998. The actual paying down of one side of the national debt while raising the other side. The reduction of the honest investor loan side of the debt. A reduction that saves Congress and the administration six to seven cents in annual interest with every entitlement dollar used this way. On the other side, on the crooked entitlement and perk side of the debt, annual interest can be paid by simply passing out more bogus counterfeit bonds with no cash involved.

This is the debt laundering scam spin-doctors tell us will make the government more capable of meeting its future obligations and can be followed monthly on the Treasury's own web pages but look at TUFF's running account first.

While the Beltway Bandits threw only $66 billion against their credit card debt, the accrued savings in interest paid on this honest contractual side reached $38 billion. Isn't that an interesting figure. Don't you remember hearing that same number elsewhere? What was the final amount of the rebate Bush so graciously passed out? Do you think this $38 billion number is just coincidental? In other words, did he simply give us the savings from interest?

And don't forget it has taken almost half a trillion of your entitlement money to provide this wonderful annual saving.

Now, you tell me that the New World Order isn't based on the premise that if you can screw Americans you can probably screw the world.