To really understand the crisis this program faces, the Trustees should be comparing the $55 billion in asset growth to the exploding growth in its unfunded obligations, which increased by $1 trillion during 2012. This also happened in 2011 when increased obligations of $2.1 trillion far outstripped the $69 billion increase in the program's Treasury security holdings.
The program's total unfunded obligations over the next 75 years has now grown to $9.6 trillion, more than one-half as large as the outstanding gross federal debt of $17 trillion.
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/06/06/social_security_falls_even_deeper_into_a_sinkhole_100378.html
In other words, this is how the politics of SS distorts what the SS reports say
The program's total unfunded obligations over the next 75 years has now grown to $9.6 trillion, more than one-half as large as the outstanding gross federal debt of $17 trillion.
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/06/06/social_security_falls_even_deeper_into_a_sinkhole_100378.html
In other words, this is how the politics of SS distorts what the SS reports say
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