There is no 'trust fund' and hasn't ever been such a thing as far as I know. SS funds are confiscated from our paychecks and go right to the general fund to pay out to the SS receivers.
There is no algore 'lockbox'...never has been. SS $$ go to buy some bonds too, I think...
That is all I know, nuthin' more and I don't care that I don't know more. It's like Wonder Bread, I like it and don't care it's white poison!
Actually .. I think there was originally .. but the dems were in power and decided they could borrow the money and just put a chit or IOU in it's place and put the money back later.
The dems were in power for 40 years - they had plenty of time to wreck SS long before Bush came into office.
People who blame everything on Bush are just vacant of brains.