If you are not willing to tackle expenditure on:
Medicaid by having a proper single payer system
Medicare by raising the cap
Defense by cutting its size and not funding foreign imperialist adventures
Then really you are wasting your time.
I suppose you could stop unemployment checks, let the infrastructure rot, and cut all subsidies, so now you have:
Millions of Homeless.
Unusable roads
Higher food prices.
You still have to pay back the debt; and now you have a rotten and volatile society to boot.
Either say Egypt three times and add Somalia or you can tackle the reasons for the mess.
Number one:
Get people back to work and paying taxes, launch a program to build an infrastructure worthy of the name, bridges, railways, roads, high speed fiber optic based communications, and public transport networks.
Number two
Embrace the Green revolution in all its glory, build wind farms, solar PV and thermal by funding with renewable incentives, fund research into alternative fuel vehicles, and get the economy booming once again.
Number three
Education in the new technologies, apprenticeships, business management and fund start up businesses to bring in the next wave of solutions.
Number four
Stop cutting taxes and raise them on those that can afford them, pursue tax evasion and recover lost billions, ensure that corporations wanting to avoid taxation invest in the economy and not in an offshore account.
Either:
You can be cowardly and batter the poorest and most vulnerable and enact Austerity.
Or
You can be brave and see a bright new future by being optimistic, adventurous and intelligent.
Austerity will funnel the riches of our country into the hands of the very few, I say we use our great wealth to strive for a better future than this will bring.
I say the brave solution is the American Way anything else negates our history and our dreams of a better and brighter world.
Stop wrapping your self in a flag and whining about what the founding fathers would do, embrace today and work for tomorrow; and that is the Real American Dream.