1) Roll back congress’ budget to FY2000 levels.
2) End all retirement benefits for elected or appointed officials, including congress itself.
3) Especially end all retirement benefits for SPOUSES of congress. Why on earth they get benefits I've no clue at all.
Until CONGRESS takes serious the idea that they're spending someone else’s money and gets their own financial house in order, everything else is just play money to them. Shifting mountains of money for political effect, rather than treating it as money taken from us, sometimes even at gunpoint.
You don't retire from Congress, you get told someone else is going to take over the duties and you can go back to your life now.
Good summary! Margaret Thatcher once said, “Socialism always fails because eventually it runs out of other people’s money.” Well, that’s where we are! The B.S. will no longer pay our huge debts and eventually just printing money (out-of-control inflation) will be a cure worse than the disease!