All these complaints of lack of funds and no one screaming where did it go.
It isn't a secret, for many years the Social Security taxes were in excess of the social security payments.
This peaked during the administration of Bill Clinton, when the workforce reached its all time best earning power.
Now the baby boom is about to retire and put the SS system under its worst ever strain.
Bill Clinton cut benefits, every president since Reagan has cut benefits in some way or another, mostly subtly with no fanfare.
I predict more small cuts , never enough to make heads roll.