I think we are talking about different times/events. I'm referring (as I assume Rush was) to back when Ryan first came to town and we Righties all loved him. He smacked down Obama on live TV (health care summit) and he had a plan to MOVE entitlements to where they are at least Constitutional - the states.
Then as now, this was deceivingly called 'cuts'. So America-Greatening / Freedom-loving wisdom lost to falsified fear once again - as with the Trump SwampJab.
Same with the later attempts/suggestions to at least privatize SS. Always wrongly fear-mongered as 'cuts' despite the actual goal of making SS much, much better. For America and for Americans.
It’s time for conservatives to make peace with Social Security and Medicare. Their own voters are receiving these program and rely on them - middle class working people who don’t have the advantage of govt pensions or inheritances to sustain them in old age. GOP should be finding ways to fund these programs , not cut them. I would divert money from the military industrial complex , and aid to illegals, and foreign aid. Also I’d be open to raising taxes on big business. I don’t consider most big corporations to be my friends. They’ve bought the whole agenda - diversity rules for employees, subsidies for BLM, encouraging and funding for employees’abortions (even travel costs). And big payouts to executives regardless of stock performance. I’d be fine with raising their taxes to help fill any shortfall in programs our seniors - including many Trump-voting seniors - depend on