There is one way it is okay to subsidize SS from general revenues
Assuming there are cash flow issues requiring much more SS funding in the intermediate term, how can the government subsidize SS today while maintaining the fig-leaf of self-funding, non-welfare status for the program?
By subsidizing JOBS that then pay into SS.
It is an inefficient way to move a dollar form general revenues to Social Security, but the inefficiencies are things like working people having food and such, so they are desirable inefficiencies.
(This OP is a wry way of saying that it is sick to project SS funding in the context of less than full employment because if we have less than full employment then SS is not our biggest problem. Whatever part of the intermediate term shortfall is due to high unemployment shouldn't be an issue going forward because the government should correct the unemployment situation not merely calculate based upon it.)
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