yes, every penny that you pay is immediately being sent to someone else, and then some last year(2010)....there is no "lock box"
I wouldn't worry though, the surgeon in chief has taken a scalpel to the budget and in a most thoughtful way he eliminated what was necessary to both cut spending and increase investments(spending) and managed to do it all for a tad under 4 Trillion....we should be just fine by 2012...ahhhhh...2015....ahhhh...2021....
the real problem is that the government has to continue spending their money on these pesky and unnecessary tax cuts...
if the goverment didn't have to pay for tax cuts they could keep more of their money and then we could have a 5 trillion dollar budget and then all of our problems would be solved and everyone would be happy
