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The second reason it ’ s important to act now is that while we have Social Security surpluses in hand , it means that we can phase in some of the painful elements of the plans , benefit cuts and tax increases , and by doing it gradually they become a lot more politically feasible than if you announced a large tax increase or benefit cut that was going to be implemented tomorrow or two years from now . Thither I soon went ; the uncalculating vanity of my parents furnishing me with an outfit and annual establishment , which would enable me to indulge at will in the luxury already so dear to my heart — to vie in profuseness of expenditure with the haughtiest heirs of the wealthiest earldoms in Great Britain . But they are so understaffed that nearly half are sending veterans who need individual therapy into group sessions or placing them on waiting lists , according to a recent report by the House Veterans ' Affairs Committee . I would have them allow — what they cannot refrain from allowing — that , although temptation may have erewhile existed as great , man was never thus , at least , tempted before — certainly , never thus fell . " And was n't it meself , sure , that jist giv 'd the laste little bit of a squaze in the world , all in the way of a commincement , and not to be too rough wid her leddyship ? This done , a few more of the loops were unfastened from the rim , a farther portion of the cloth introduced , and the disengaged loops then connected with their proper buttons . So far from it , I still lay nearly level with the plane of the horizon ; for the change of situation which I had acquired , had forced the bottom of the car considerably outward from my position , which was accordingly one of the most imminent peril . It was a " blood relationship " in the fullest sense of the word . I saw , indeed , that they were his , but I shook as with a fit of the ague in fancying they were not .