As to what DeMint says, until I can see the wording of the law he's referring to, I don't know that it applies to SS any more than it would apply to anything and everything else that is in the spending bills that have been passed.
As to being afraid, my only concern would be whether this will be the point in time that the entitlement class takes the step of trying to enslave the producers involuntarilly, as opposed to the voluntary way the producers hand over the product of their work now.
If things don't reach a crisis point this year, I'd expect that it will just happen somewhere down the line, because I don't think the political will will ever exist to do anything more than kick the can down the road until there's no more road.
OH...have faith and trust in The Lord...it is not near that gloomy.