Where is there FAT in the federal budget?

I have to admire your chutzpah. Where we would be as a society with these three programs is anyone's guess... the millions of people who live only because of these programs effect on their lives... but you did answer my question so thank you very much.

Chutzpah, is generally considered a negative, but either way I was simply answering the question. Where would society be? We'd be more wealthy. People would have money to retire because it wasn't taxed away. Health care would be cheaper, because costly government programs didn't drive up the cost. There would be more jobs, because companies would have the money to hire more people and create more products and services that benefit our lives. In short, everything in our society would be better. Do you realize that if everyone in our society had placed their Social Security money into a private retirement, they would all be millionaires by the time they retired? You think a millionaire can pay for health care without medicare? I think so.... Just a guess, but yeah I do.

By Chutzpah I mean that you have expessed a daring opinion. Daring because of its drastic effects on millions of people. Medicare gives essential health care that is otherwise out of reach of these neighbors and family members. Social Security could be privatized, but what happens to the people who for not fault of their own do not invest much (disaled, widowed, partly employed).. guess they go hungry. How about the people who given their own accounts make poor investment decisions, do we let them go hungry in their old age (serves them righjt, right?) I believe in an America that is better than that.