        Bottom line:  bon apetite, Grandma!      SIMPSON:  It’ll
go broke in the year 2037.       LAWSON:  Alice Rivlin was just
on CNBC saying that that was one of the favorite methods.
SIMPSON:  There are 15 of them in there. All of them have to do
with stabilizing the system, which we are told is insolvent,
it’s paying out more then it’s taking in.  LAWSON:  Right now?
LAWSON:  But what about the $180 billion in surplus that it
brings in every year?  SIMPSON:  There is no surplus in there.
It’s a bunch of IOUs.  LAWSON:  That’s what I wanted to actually
get at.  SIMPSON:  Listen. Listen.  It’s 2.5 trillion bucks in
IOUs which have been used to build the interstate highway system
and all of the things people have enjoyed since it has been
setup.  LAWSON:  Two wars, tax cuts for the wealthy.  SIMPSON: 
Whatever, whatever. You pick your crap and I’ll pick the real
stuff. It has to do with the highway system, it was to run
America. And those are IOUs in there. And now there is not
enough coming in every mon