http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/30/AR2009033003291.html
Recession Puts a Major Strain On Social Security Trust Fund
With unemployment rising, the payroll tax revenue that finances Social Security benefits for nearly 51 million retirees and other recipients is falling, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office. As a result, the trust fund\'s annual surplus is forecast to all but vanish next year -- nearly a decade ahead of schedule -- and deprive the government of billions of dollars it had been counting on to help balance the nation\'s books.
给懒得读英文得同学们概括一下:原来预计到2041年才有可能(或不可能,按照老忽得解释)破产得社会保险金,如果经济不改善得化,明年就赤字了(按照国会预算办公室)。