[KarlInOhio]

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4a3.html

[mpreston]

Now take "Assets At End Of Year" and invest that money. There would be much more than $1.7 trillion dollars in the fund. Another way to look at it - since the money was spent from the general fund this is a -$3.4 trillion dollar "swing" in assets.