Get a grip, Social Security is going to go bankrupt with or without the deficit. This is nothing new. The cuts should have been long ago. Or better yet, don't make cuts, how about stop paying for people that never even paid into the system.
Let me give you a little background, on a personal level, of how screwed up the social security system is. My mom passed away in 2001. She worked for 30+ years paying into the "system" and guess what, according to the Social Security Administration the chances of my dad seeing one dime of what she paid in when he retires is almost non-existent, for al intents and purposes! The money that the government took from my mom's paycheck for 30 years "in-trust" is just gone, put back into the system to pay for programs and people that have not paid into it at all! So, don't come whining to me about Social Security! I'm not even going to count on it being there. It's just another social program with good intentions that the government managed to screw up!