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My answer is that I completely agree. It happens to be the Conservative position as well - one that Ted Cruz lines up with. So if you also hold the Conservative position and answered affirmatively to that question,

Do "constitutional conservatives" believe in honoring contracts? - Your answer: it better be - of course

When the US government made a bargain with employees and their employeers that in return for 16% of their annual salary the SSA would provide the retirement income provided for in law? - Your answer - yes if you are a truthful person believing in the sanctity of contracts.

Will SS income offset required SS payment over the next 20 years - Answer - no - there is a known large deficit.

So question, how do you jibe your insistence that this admittedly bankrupt system be "privatization" with your belief in honoring contracts.

Do you believe you can privatize government bankruptcy?

In other words, what is the constitutional conservatives solution to the godawful mess we are in. The ideologically pure answer, please, since you and your Crewzoid friends insist that he is the ideologically pure "constitutional conservative?"

Let me predict that I am about to hear a lot of backpedaling, extemporizing and special pleading.

Do I believe in contract law? Absolutely. Is Social Security a contract? Absolutely not. The government can change the law any time our legislators get together and conspire to do so, which they have done numerous times already. The only obligation the government has is the one enumerated under current law. If tomorrow the government decides to change the law and stop paying out Social Security, that is completely within their legal authority. There is no contract. We can't sue if they change the law.

So how to fix it? Ponzi schemes cannot be fixed. They can only be ended. And to end it, it must be turned over to an entity that is held accountable to those it serves under legal contract. Because the individual can enter a contract with a private investment firm where no such contract existed with a heavily armed government.

So the only thing to do at this point is to reduce any future obligation by allowing people to opt out. That is the Conservative position. Getting the government the hell out of the way.

And I noticed that you still have not revealed your own position on this. Should Social Security be privatized. If you answered 'yes', then Cruz is your candidate. If you answered 'no', then you are covered by Rubio, Trump, Sanders, or Hillary. And if you didn't answer at all, then you are a coward.