anchor: If the prospect of surpluses over the next decade lulls us into complacency, the nation could face daunting demographic challenges without having changed the path of programs for the elderly or having built the economic capacity to bear the costs of the programs as currently structured.
positive: Complacency is a possible result of seeing surpluses during the next 10 years.
negative: Demographic challenges are unlikely to have any effect on our ability to sustain some of the current program costs..