They did have choices...many choices.
Please look to the root of the problem.
Look in the mirror. That's the problem.
Americans for decades convinced themselves that the only "viable" and "electable" choices were tax-and-spend Democrats and borrow-and-spend Republicans.
Now those same Americans don't want to pay for the consequences of their electoral retardation.
Well, they ARE going to rue the day, but they took us down with them!
Absolutely!
I see the current electorate changing things in monumental ways!! /s
At the ballot box???
Who?
Name one.
Name one choice at the ballot box who would throw away Social Security and Medicare and had a Chinaman's chance in Hell of getting through a primary.
In the meantime, the Feds took the money. They still do, only now it gets handed out to illegals, and those who did pay in won't get squat.
So if you want to make cuts, let's start with people the programs were not designed to pay for, namely those who are not here legally and who did not pay in.
And while we are at it, cleaning up the interpretation of the 14th Amendment to include the "...and under the jurisdiction thereof..." part just might save a few billions too. Send them home.