Since 1937 Social Security has collected a substantial surplus

[vssmith]

As of 2009 the SSA has collected $2,540,348,000,000 more than it has paid out.
In 2009 it collected $807,490,000,000 and paid out $685,801,000,000

The info can be found at: http://www.ssa.gov/history/tftable.html
Please note that the data in this table are in millions

[aquart]

1. Then who took OUR MONEY?

[LARED]

4. Congress nt

[TBF]

5. The rich folks. nt

[DJ13]

7. The wealthy

The commission was supposed to find a way to get the bottom 90% to pay for the trillions the wealthy have sucked out of our government revenue over the last 30 years.

[OHdem10]

8. Reagan took money to build up defense--IOU is there. Other

Members of Congress have "borrowed from SS" to cover
other Programs.

[MiniMe]

2. Yes, and the federal government has raided the fund

Borrowed the money for Treasury notes, which should be very secure. But W took care of that and they aren't so secure any more. W almost created an international panic when he called the TBills in SS "worthless pieces of paper".

[senseandsensibility]

3. I wish everyone would rec this

and I wish I could hear about it somewhere besides DU. There seems to be a blackout on this info reaching the public. I wonder why.:sarcasm:

[TexasObserver]

6. The GOP has been after Soc Sec since its inception.

Stealing SS funds and then claiming we need deficit reduction is part of it.

Soc Sec is fine. They need to stop stealing from it and stop attacking it.

Soc Sec is not the problem. Military spending is.