Cut Government Bureaucracy and Welfare Spending

Over the past 10 years, all government spending excluding Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Defense, and Interest on the Debt has averaged 6.2% of GDP.  

If we cut that part of the budget by one-third, we will slow the growth of the debt so that it reaches 100% of GDP six years later - in 2029 instead of 2023.  By 2050 the Debt will be 239% and growing.  

There is waste in government and there may be some programs and agencies we can live without, but a modern country competing in a global economy needs a functioning federal government.  There is only so much we can cut.