Well, at least that's an honest answer.
However, if you kept social security, medicare and defense, you could eliminate every single program and fire every single government worker, and you'd still have a budget deficit. So cutting all discretionary spending, the DoE and the EPA while cutting taxes would still leave us with a large deficit.
That's why Socialist Insecurity and Medicare/Medicaid have to go altogether...The demographically untenable.
I'm with you. Screw old people. Let 'em suffer, let 'em die. Right?
The math simply doesn't work, rdean. The people who are getting money today didn't put in enough to justify their payments. And people aren't putting in enough to pay what they expect to be owed in the future.
To meet those obligations, there is either going to have to be fundamental reform of social security or massive tax increases. Either will absolutely, totally, positively happen. There are no other options.