We have rights ~ the Chicoms will be satisfied with promises. That's the way it should be. A President who fails to see who ought to be first in his obligations ~ well, what can I say, we already have one of them!
People who need social security will get it. Those who don’t need social security will not. In other words, it will be treated like it always should have been - a welfare benefit.
Obligations to Americans? Americans have stupidly voted for politicians who sold them a bill of goods: that they can pick the pocket of somebody else & have all their needs/wants taken care of. It’s time for reality.
“The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
Now if the federal gov’t has vast assets that it can sell to pay back all the money it owes, great. Let’s get started. Let’s start with selling off all federally held land in the west. I’m sure there are lots of things we can do to ameliorate our current debt problem. None of them will have universal support. But it will still mean dealing with our untennable entitlement problem.