This is just part & parcel of the Grover Norquist et.al. campaign to shrink Social Security- one of the most hated by NeoCons of the arch-Communist fiend Franklin Roosevelt's programs- small enough to drown it, like all government and government programs- in the bathtub. Easiest way to destroy the program is to bankrupt it.

These clowns make no bones about what they are up to; they don't give a rats ass about Social Security since they're never going to need to avail themselves of it.

Its particularly depressing to see ignorant people defend this bullshit as a "reform" or an "improvement" or an attempt to "save the system".
Its none of these things, as the Neo-Con idealogues themselves readily admit.