When you were working, your government didn’t trust you to save for your retirement. So it took money out of your paycheck, took the same amount from your employer, and deposited it into a Social Security Trust Fund. The implication was that it would be held there for your retirement. But your drunken Uncle Sam, in the Treasury Department, saw it as an opportunity to feed his addiction, which is spending money wherever he finds a source. Sam raided the Trust Fund and spent all your money.