Google up "federal budget pie chart" and look at some of the budget analysis. Most of our spending is mandatory spending. We could cut ALL discretionary spend

Google up "federal budget pie chart" and look at some of the budget analysis. Most of our spending is mandatory spending. We could cut ALL discretionary spending and that might just barely balance the budget. We have two options (if you take a balanced budget as a worthy goal, which is debatable)... 1 - rebuild the social contract from the ground up, with massively reduced mandatory spending 2 - increase revenue