Remember when * visited the SS trust fund file cabinet for a photo op?

[Career Prole]

It wasn't the first time the file cabinet made it on television!
Check out this PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer from 2001!
Transcript (audio and video available at link)

PAUL SOLMAN: The latest headlines set the scene: The shrinking budget surplus, the recent tax cut, the debate over private retirement accounts. Do they threaten Social Security? But we were driving at some even more basic questions-- how does Social Security work, and when folks talk about the Social Security Trust Fund and raiding the lockbox, what do they mean? We're heading for Appalachia because the most visual answers to those questions lie in Parkersburg, West Virginia, but first you have to slow down through Clarksburg, where we went looking for some people to hear their thoughts on Social Security. It turns out it's a major player in a local economy...

PBS needs to rerun this one!