Not only would Israel be unable to trust that its security situation would improve if the areas were to revert to Jordanian and Egyptian control, Israel could trust that its security situation would rapidly deteriorate as the prospect of regional war increased.
And if the locals do not trust the security forces above the rebels, the rebels will never be defeated.
Other topics of discussion in London will include encouraging international financial institutions to re-engage with Somalia and building greater trust and security in cyberspace.
Western failure to stop Iran will convince the Persian Gulf states that they cannot trust Western security guarantees and are best served by developing their own nuclear arsenals.
Asked Friday why the U.S. canceled plans to provide food aid to North Korean people because of their government's actions, Mr. Rhodes said the lack of trust on security issues had implications for other programs.
"We are going to explore whether it is possible to present a revised proposal that meets the principles of increasing trust and security and maintaining the relevance of the .uk proposition in a changing landscape, " Nominet said in a statement.
As for the plan to rely on computer modeling and simulations rather than tests, Lugar said the Senate was being asked to trust the security of our country to a program that is unproven and unlikely to be fully operational until perhaps 2010.
Congress spent these surpluses, and the U.S. Treasury issued the Social Security Trust Fund special bonds, which can be redeemed whenever the Social Security system has a current account deficit.
But the government will borrow those new deposits, leave an IOU in the Trust Fund and then promptly spend the money just as it has with the Social Security Trust Fund perhaps on some worthless green energy project that may eventually embarrass the Obama administration.
The question that many are asking today is who can they trust, and what system of financial security can they trust, if any.
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At its inception the Social Security Trust Fund and other trust funds were held Sacrosanct, i.e.
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Honest Bookkeeping Washington should separate the Social Security Trust Fund from the federal budget.
Despite the existence of the Social Security Trust Fund, surplus money isn't really set aside for pensions.
Well, when we get back to fiscal responsibility, we'll start paying back the Social Security Trust Fund.
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That same amount will be credited to the Social Security Trust Fund, in the form of Treasury securities.
The Social Security trust fund bonds are explicitly backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.
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"Now the citizens have started to trust the Iraqi security forces, " said al-Swady.
"They're about to build their oil rigs on top of the Medicare and Social Security trust funds, " Markey said.
And besides, they insist, the Social Security Trust fund would be made whole through transfers from the general fund.
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Whether any of these laws and spending ideas Fix-It-First, an Energy Security Trust, Paycheck Fairness come to life, much less work, doesn't matter.
The commission members who opposed privatisation wanted to underpin the solvency of the Social Security trust fund by raising contribution rates.
Quite simply, because the diversion of funds to individual accounts would reduce the money available to the Social Security trust fund.
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They also projected that the Social Security Trust Fund would be exhausted in 2032, 34 years from the time of the report.
So where does this idea for an Energy Security Trust come from?
Payroll taxes were raised and a surplus generated that is placed in the Social Security Trust Fund, which invests in Treasury bonds.
The Social Security trust fund, together with payroll taxes, is sufficient to cover program benefits for more than the next 20 years.
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Federal revenues and the Social Security trust fund are far too important to depend on the fuzzy distinction between employee and independent contractor.
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But this Energy Security Trust could well serve as the tip of a wedge that could some day lever open a new carbon tax.
On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal pointed out that the Social Security trust fund includes trillions in securities, representing past surpluses plus interest.
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