When these programs began, most of our citizens were pigs that built their houses of bricks and these were excellent programs with great futures. Now…many of “we” have evolved into pigs that build their houses of straw and the rest can’t afford to keep rebuilding their houses after the big, bad wolf of life blows them down.
Who else is paying besides the American people for the SS and medicare. It the driver of the deficits not military spending. Did you ever look at the fed budget?
It’s been predicted for decades SS and medicare would cause massive deficits as boomer retire. Cutting the military budget won’t fix that… It’s only 700 or 800 billion.