And just why are ideas like this ...

emanating from the State Department?

This is evil. Really evil. Dangle 10K in front of people who are desperate, people who should be fully supported by the full weight of the state and federal governments that "serve" us.

It's worse. Once a significant proportion no longer has the prospect of Social Security, it would be easier to cut Social Security for the remaining ones who didn't take the deal.

True. This has been the gleam in the eye of the GOP for two generations. Not the Trump GOP. The "old" mainstream GOP that has disliked this kind of extreme government intrusion, this "Ponzi scheme."