You've not been paying attention. First, we start with the government retireds, then welfare, the various alphabet agencies and so forth. AFTER all that's done, then we look at SS.
>You’ve not been paying attention. First, we start with the government retireds, then welfare, the various alphabet agencies and so forth. AFTER all that’s done, then we look at SS.
Yes and it has been pointed out why this is fiddling while Rome burns. You are suggesting a pittance of cuts which will be rough to accomplish. Thus you are just punting the problem down the road until it is worse and using this excuse as cover.
You have no proffered a real solution. You have proffered a bunch of malarkey as cover for not doing anything.
Government Retirees - that is 3% if you eliminate altogether. (I find it funny how people believe they are owed social security but government employees are not owed a pension).
Welfare - 14%. How far do you think this should be cut? Let's assume a 33% cut for now, that is a reduction of close to 5%.
Eliminate Alphabet Agencies - Maybe 1.5%. With those cuts we have reduced spending by less than 10%. As social security and medicare are set to explode, overall spending will increase by much more than the 10% you have identified for cuts. In short, your recommendation does nothing to end unsustainable government spending.
The longer the big ticket spending goes on unabated the more drastic the cuts need to be. My recommendation is to go after them first - then we can focus on the little stuff.