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Government actuaries, like observant Jews, celebrate the New Year in the fall. In September, 2000, when the books closed on the fiscal year, the federal government had the biggest budget surplus in history, and it was predicted that the accumulated surplus for the next decade would be more than five trillion dollars. The big question during the election was what to do with the money; Al Gore, as you may remember, called for it to be put in a "lock box" for retirement benefits, while George W. Bush said that some of the money ought to be put back in Americans' pockets. Three years later, it all sounds like a debate between pre-Copernican astronomers. In the fiscal year ...