Before we get to cutting benefits, there’s other stuff we can do. American economic system is very fat in the middle lot of middlemen involved. On big ticket g

Before we get to cutting benefits, there’s other stuff we can do. American economic system is very fat in the middle lot of middlemen involved. On big ticket government spending items we can do a lot of things to improve efficiency. - Healthcare: price transparency and elimination of PBMs would reduce cost significantly. - Defense: Undoing some of the consolidation, yes obviously will take time, but this fixed cost plus shenanigans that inflate defense spending is insane. There are other places too, lot of things can be done before talking about austerity.