1.   And that then the enormous loss to the American people in interest savings.

2.   But he said that once he explains the risk vs. the gain in interest savings, clients readily take the floating loans.

3.   But his plan to credit the interest savings to the Social Security trust fund has been dismissed as little more than a bookkeeping exercise.

4.   Clinton has proposed, for instance, that the interest savings from debt reduction be somehow shoveled into the Social Security trust fund.

5.   Gore would use the surplus to pay down the national debt, then transfer the interest savings back into Social Security.

6.   Gore would then channel the interest savings from debt reduction to Social Security, in effect committing trillions of dollars of general tax revenue to keep the system afloat.

7.   Gore contends, however, that his plan would pay down the national debt and transfer any future interest savings to Social Security.

8.   In addition, Gore would also credit the fund with the interest savings resulting from the reduced debt.

9.   In their amendments on Monday, the Democrats proposed using the interest savings to finance popular spending programs instead of tax cuts.

10.   That would improve its debt rating and spin off added interest savings.