Who kept the key to the lockbox?
Congress kept the key but busted the lock box and took the money long ago.
Yeah we never got Gore’s lockbox nor Bush’s stock market investment option, because they are all big talking used-car-salesmen.
Why am I being nice.
They’re liars and cheats.
Social Security should have been a government facilitated investment fund for those who paid into it. It has instead become just another item in the federal budget, and many things that are not ‘social security’ related are funded by the funds put into social security. Some in the government will swear up and down this isn’t true, but it it true.
If you have one bank account, and all of the earnings you have go into that bank account, how do you differentiate between that which was taken out for rent, vs. car insurance, vs. whatever else you’re paying for? On a personal level you can do this because you are overseeing your own accounts and have no motivation to lie to yourself. On the other hand, if someone else is overseeing the account (AKA government) they can easily obscure where the money is going.
536 thieves.
Confiscate congressional pensions to shore up social security. You were responsible for it’s maintenance
Most effective means to save the system is to disallow the millions of Illegal Aliens already collecting SSI or other SS benefits.
Deport all that can be found. For the others, change the laws allowing them to suck the system dry.