And if pigs had wings, they could fly. What you propose has no support from the people. There is a lack of political will to make the painful decisions necessary to get back on track. The welfare state is firmly embedded in our culture. Politicians and the voters will support any solution that keeps it going.
Both our politicians and the electorate are very very shortsighted.
As I posted earlier, Ryan has a plan that would transition us away from the welfare state.
The electorate doesn’t really give a crap about some rule change that wouldn’t affect them for 5 or 10 years.
But the power of their money would affect them now.
As I said before, our Government is nothing more than a “Middle Man”, a pass through entity that happens to have the ability to make rules and collect the money with massive overhead.
Remove/limit their ability to make rules/regulations.
Freeze their budgets.
States need to reject Federal funds.
Flood the Feds with money.
At this point we can tell the feds that any and all excess funds are to be allocated to the current budget (which will be easily paid for) then towards future commitments.