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[–] PM_Me_Your_Kitchen 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

They don't let social security money "sit." They spend it on interest payments to service the national debt which they increase the principle of in order to write social security checks.

If they did just let the money sit then the whole program would be comparably more solvent than it is now.