Ignorance will ruin us – and maybe social security as well

And the really sad thing is that the vast majority of comments believe this nonsense making no effort to seek the truth.

In 2025, the Social Security (OASDI) trust funds earned approximately $64 billion in interest income – even after the bonds held by the trust started to be redeemed in 2021.

Social Security has always invested its excess revenue in U.S. government debt, since 1960 non-marketable special treasury bonds that don’t fluctuate in value.

Since 2010, Social Security has covered the gap between tax receipts and benefits by drawing down its trust‑fund assets (interest on the accumulated Treasury bonds), so the trust‑fund balance has been shrinking rather than growing.