You're either going to gore everything else or simply not balance the budget - and continue like we have been, falling deeper into the hole. Yet Newt and Bill have done just that - taken SS off the table . P ut simply, Social Security Is Where The Money Is . You can't balance the budget without touching it. You can pretend to, which is what's happening now, but you can't really do it.
T hat's why a few brave leaders have proposed scaling it back.
Yet most are afraid to do so. The senior citizens' lobbies are among the strongest around. F ederal rules prohibit such money from being used for political purposes. No problem - they can simply divert that money to other parts of their budget, freeing up the bulk of their other income to be used for lobbying. But they weren't the only ones.