The Social Security Trust Fund is IN FACT
Date: 2009-08-19, 11:08AM
A literal filing cabinet full of IOU's in the form of T-Bills. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4190
No one under the age of 50 will ever collect the promised benefit. It is mathmatically and demographicly impossible. The last real chance at long term solvancy was under Clinton, until Monica got under him, that is. Bush tried, but no one wanted to hear the truth. And them he piled on 3-4 TRILLION more in unfunded liabilities via the prescription drug benefit.
The boomers take a lot of heat but the so-called "greatest generation" is the one that is sucking this system dry.
Obama's profligacy is almost a footnote to the amounts "owed" in future SS benefits. And we're not even going to mention the train-wreck-in-progress that is Medicare.
I promise you this: Social Security becomes a means tested welfare program within 20 years. I dare you to make the numbers work any other way.
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