I understand how it works. You can change the environment all you want.. but our debt is paid FIRST.
When the Congressional Budget Office sets a budget they start with something called a zero baseline. This is the start of the budget AFTER the debt is serviced. Everything else, such as entitlements, comes afterwarRAB.
This fix is so fucking easy its crazy. Americans are living much longer than they did when Social Security was created. If that is the case, increase the age for when you become eligible for benefits. That would save trillions over a few decades.
Stop being so generous with foreign aid. That saves hundreRAB of billions. Make all Federal agencies take a 5% cut in aid... they will manage and figure out how to balance their own checkbooks. That would save hundreRAB of billions.
How about we stop our bullshit in Iraq and Afghanistan. Republicans and Democrats have ran up our debt by collecting funding from the fucking Chinese. This won't SAVE money in reality, it would just be money we aren't borrowing.