[TomGuy]

If half the people would drop off these programs the outlay would be lowered by around 15-20% and the revenues would go up 5-10% putting the budget in balance.

Only in the land of lollipops and licorice rainbows.

If the government had such extra funds, they would find other ways to spend them: more green energy projects, more university programs to study the sex live of the Monarch butterfly, many bridges to nowhere, pay off cronies, etc.

Social Security, for example, is going broke, not because of the decades of mandatory salary deductions, but because of all the government I.O.U.'s that have basically pilfered the funds from the trust.

[kabar]

Social Security, for example, is going broke, not because of the decades of mandatory salary deductions, but because of all the government I.O.U.'s that have basically pilfered the funds from the trust.

No, SS is going broke because it is actuarily unsound. The trust fund could contain real assets and it would still go broke. In 1950 there were 16 workers for every retiree; today there are 3.3; and by 2030 there will be two. In 2030 one in five residents of this country will be 65 or older, twice what it is now. Our aging society is what is making SS unsustainable.

[rodguy911]

Exactly,what we will end up with is you will have to be 70 to collect it’s where its headed.