If you took a poll of FreeRepublic, I don’t think you’d get 30% support for cutting entitlement spending by a dollar.
I'd support it if the Fed was shut down, the big banks were broken up, the Federal Government forbade itself from picking winners and losers in capital and agriculture markets, the income tax was eliminated etc. You could really go on forever.
Never going to happen. It will all come crashing down of its own weight anyway. Then things are going to get really ugly. Why go after the least culpable groups. They're just trying to function in a country stripped of capital. They're only emulating the con game of the big shots.