Social Security and Medicare trust funds are in dire financial condition due to rising benefit costs, but the biggest problem facing the two largest federal entitlement programs is how they are funded, according to a non-profit that advocates greater government transparency and accountability. “Our bottom line is the trust funds are all a shell game, there is no money in the trust funds. As [former U.S. Comptroller-General] David Walker says, trust funds have no funds and should be distrusted,” Truth in Accounting (TIA) President Sheila Weinberg told The Epoch Times Thursday. Weinberg was referring to the fact the trust funds receive what are in effect IOUs from the Treasury Department that are called “securities,” promises to pay a specified amount at a future date. On Social Security, for example, the government pays interest on the securities, generally about two percent, and the total value of the securities is presently just …