The Social Security Trust Fund Farce
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Earlier this year, news was made when the cash flow was negative for the current social security in 2010. This has prompted many politicians to make the statement made that Social Security is not in danger because of his “trust fund” balance that has been over the years in which a surplus. These statements are both ignorance in regard to the flow of public funds or fraud on the part of politicians. (Probably both)
The important consideration when it comes to “Trust Fund” is coming to understand the cash flow and accounting beyond state resources. If the social security administration, they placed in a Fund. (Often called the “Social Security Trust Fund” is named), this fund invests then the assets of these funds in the coffers of the government. In effect, this means a I.O.U. be exchanged for the totality of the social security tax revenue.
To collect the Social Security Trust Fund, its lending to the government of the United States, it is necessary that the government itself to go write a new debt to make good on these loans. This is what the last sentence of the so-called Trust Fund. In order for the government, well the right to its promises, it has to borrow so much to drive up interest rates and possibly the collapse of the economy. In fact, the Social Security Trust Fund a circle which has implications.
This fact restricts the free spending politicians try, to avoid this fictitious “Trust Fund” as a propaganda tool to control spending, the need for sustainable economic recovery. To understand the true state of public finances should be the people understand that they are not dependent on state subsidies to finance their retirement. The money was already spent, and the cupboard is now bare. Astute investors should try to be financially self-sufficient, so that the inevitable disruptions in state programs dragging them into the abyss.