[E. Pluribus Unum]

An IOU is not a “trust fund.”

[freedumb2003]

I repeat for the bazillionth time:

Anyone younger than 55 who thinks he/she is going to see a dime of Social Security is insane.

It is a big zero in my retirement planning.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The bad news is that the commie ‘RATS were counting on the illegal aliens to keep their Social Security scam afloat. I hope they’ve got a Plan B.

[andyk]

Social Security is fast approaching insolvency

Oh my goodness! When did this happen?

[rawcatslyentist]

It's those Fat Cats fault! No Bush's fault!

Cut it down burn it up, tomorrow we starve. /s for the sarcasm impaired

[Libloather]

I want my money back. If they keep it, in most circles, that’s a crime.

[Sacajaweau]

Three years earlier??

Wonder if that has anything to do with the 2% discount on SS payments for last year and this year.

Ya think??

[bgill]

Any excuse to bring on the death panels.

[FormerACLUmember]

but the Democrats say everything is great, there’s no problem.

[Sarajevo]

It's my money, and I want it now..............

/J.G.Wentworth- I really hate that commercial.

[Freestate316]

Al Gore thought it should be in a lockbox. I would have rather seen Al Gore in a lockbox (in St. Elizabeth’s))

[antidemoncrat]

I suppose the Democrats want everyone to forget LBJ moved the SS Trust Fund into the General Fund so the Feds could just borrow money from it when they had some grandiose spending plan. I seem to remember the Fed has "borrowed" some 2.6 Trillion from it.

[paratrooper82]

Hey Washington Post idiots! The leftist stole 16 trillion dollars of the American tax dollars they personally saved in the SS trust fund years ago and replaced the money they stole with IOU’s that have never been paid! Currently the government has more than 47 trillion of unfunded liability (promises) made to Americans!

Wake up you idiots, regurgitating everything the leftist say an do is not news, and is the number one reason why you are the old media and a dying news outlet.

No one reads you anymore, Americans cannot trust what they read in your newspaper! This article about the ss trust fund is just another example of the Washington bubble, unable and unwilling to get the facts right, again!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

And here is where YOUR money went!

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/ProgData/fundFAQ.html#n4

[jrp]

If they’re going to cut the retirement income they’ve promised everyone (I know it’s a Ponzi scam, but they pretend it’s not, so I will to), how about letting some portion of IRA/401k funds be withdrawn tax-free to compensate?

[BobL]

I would prefer turning Social Security into a means-tested welfare program, but if it takes exhausting a fictitious ‘trust fund’ to get it under control, that’s better than nothing.

[ballplayer]

Did I miss something in the article,The contributions to social Security come strictly from Payroll deductions which Obama has cut in half and called his Middle class tax cut the past couple of years to the tune of hundreds of Billions of dollars from the social security trust fund. Is it just a Coincidence since that so called payroll tax cut went into effect The trust fund Insolvency has Accelerated? How come NO ONE MENTIONS THAT?

[central_va]

No social program is going to be slashed , ever. The value if the money you receive will continue to lose value due to the nature of deficit spending and fiat currency. It results are the same, except with inflation, no voting is required and it is the easy way out for the pols.