There is more they can do than cut spending on social security and medicare. They can cut functions/departments in the Federal government not provided for in the constitution. They can cut foreign aid and aid to foreigners in the country. They withdraw from the UN. They can privitize the TSA and cut back on Homeland Security excesses and global warming research and measures. They can cut back military involvement and let the EU pay for it’s own military protection.
The money they took from workers and employers for SS and health care for their old age should not be stolen from them but the programs should be phased out for those who have the time to accrue the assets to survive in their old age. The Federal government should not default on retirement assistance promise that people paid into. If the Federal government can guarentee bankster loses; they can should not default on the agreement they made with the eldery who paid into SS and medicare in good faith.
The main shift we have to accept is that we are no longer the world’s sugar daddy and protectors. We are broke. Our country is over populated.