What SHOCKS me it that this guy points out that the "trust fund" is a fraud. It's normally a sacred tenet of AARP and liberals that the "trust fund" is actually a real asset.
What Samuelson and others are doing is is falsely equating Social Security, a program that forces people to contribute, with welfare a program in which the government gives people something for nothing. The argument he uses is that people who pay into the program all their lives don't deserve anything when they retire and that it is their patriotic duty to let the politicians squander and steal their hard earned money. This is a typical liberal position.
The reason it is changed from the liberal position that social security is dependable and reliable is because the day when the money will run out is coming closer. The liberals are moving to a new set of lies.