the social security trust fund has been looted, what should have been a 4 trillion surplus is now nothing more than IOUs sitting in the fund which the gov gets to doublebook and count as an asset and as I have stated, means testing for social security will start to happen within a few years and remember that SS is not guaranteed, it runs on a year to year basis and privatizing social security would just mean more unaccountability and more gambling with an already broke system, in a way the means testing is a step to privatizing, you see means testing is just a sneaky way of limiting payouts to the people because the gov can't just come out and say they have looted the fund, they can't come out and say the 4 trillion dollars that was supposed to be put into a "safe and stable" fund which is payed into by the people has been spent on other projects without the people's permission