Social Security

Read that Social Insecurity, The benefit amount for 2016 just came out, and as I open the familiar
envelope and see that the amount remains the same, the cost of living increase has indeed been canceled by congress, I feel cheated and angry. How can we trust any current legislator or the administration. The only thing the two parties have agreed on in the last eight years was to cut Social Security.
They say Social Security will run out of funds in x number of years. That is pure BS, There are no funds in Social Security. Every year all the funds collected are spent in the general fund with the attitude that the amount collected will always cover the obligation and quite a bit more for politicians to spend. The only thing legal about it is: that is the way it has worked from the beginning.
Social Security is not a give away; we worked a lifetime contributing to the fund. It is our money. One would expect to realize a dividend from its responsible administration, not a change in the law canceling the cost of living provisions.
Is there any surprise that none of the politically correct politicians of either party have the support they need?