Why do they keep talking about a Social security Trust fund. There is no such animal.
I don't know how old you are however if you have spent more than a decade working or running a business, you would get (or have been) teary eyed looking at the ratio of input of SS funds compared to the available funds at retirement on a personal basis.
Just a little ditty to contemplate the next time a politician requests you to be complacent when paying your "fair share".
Because they know if they keep talking about it, people will believe it. If the public were to really find out about the "creative accounting" that goes on in Washington, and realize that if they were to try that sort of nonsense, that they'd wind up in jail, they might try to put a stop to it... Or maybe not. After all, a new season of "American Idol" is about to start.
Mark