"The only reason soc sec is/could be screwed is because Bush is handling it woefully, and lying about the numbers."
Even in the event that Social Security DOES turn out to be ok, you can actually direct your thanks to a REPUBLICAN, most notably Mr. Ron Paul, Republican member of congress, member of the libertarian party, and former chair of the RLC (Republican Liberty Caucus
http://www.rlc.org/ ), for introducing, supporting, and voting for legislation that would keep other politicians hands out of the Social Security money pot, and preventing them from using it for any purposes but for Social Security.
"Soc Sec will survive, people will get their money under the current system and privatization will fuck people up something royally."
I don't think Social Security will survive. If it does, it is clearly going to require either a massive tax hike, massive inflation, or massive benefit cuts. In any case, someone is going to be hurting, and from the looks of any of the scenarios, it will be the lower and middle classes.
This is aside from the fact that the feds shouldn't be able to do with YOUR hard earned money as THEY want. The rights to money should stay in the hands of those who earned said money, and that is just.