Social Security Payments and the Republican Tea Party

Why do the republicans think that it is OK to say that missing SS payments in August is OK?

“I came to Washington for a reason – to cut spending so that future generations are not saddled with debt,” says freshman Chip Cravaak(R)of Minnesota. “It’s up to the president and Secretary Geithner to decide what bills get paid.”

What? Remember 2000 election, and all the lampooning of the SS "Lock Box?"

I am a fan of Ayn Rand, well, at least of the Objectvist Philosophy. But so are many conservatives, and particularly, many tea party adherents, like Paul Ryan. Ryan's budget would eliminate Medicare, and replace it with a voucher program (what is it with the republican party and vouchers?) that, according to most things I have read, would only pay 30-40% of private coverage. And once Medicare is dismantled, then they will go after Social Security.

Rand her self was a medicare and social security beneficiary. Why?

Because in 1974 she contracted lung cancer (age, 69) and was told that the tx would cost more than her books brought in, she took both Medicare and Social Security, collecting just over 11K in SS Benefits.