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To: Kaslin

But-but-but there are all these interest-free loans made from the “segregated” Social Security Trust Fund to the US Treasury, to make up for deficit spending in past years....


2 posted on 01/21/2018 9:55:28 AM PST by alloysteel (Sometimes I have to tell myself, it just isn't worth the jail time.)
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To: alloysteel

Money borrowed from Social Security helped pay for Bush’s Iraq war. And Obama’s war against Libya.


9 posted on 01/21/2018 10:00:02 AM PST by WilliamIII
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To: alloysteel

What happened to that lock box Al Gore told us about years ago? Did our political geniuses take our money from that fund and use it to pay for illegal immigrants or some other pet project of theirs? I bet their pension fund is fully funded with our tax dollars.


45 posted on 01/21/2018 10:52:19 AM PST by Peeps47
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To: alloysteel

The problem is precisely that...if this money had been invested over all those years, and not used as a cash cow for other agencies, there’d be a surplus.


63 posted on 01/21/2018 11:36:15 AM PST by livius
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