and redestribute the wealth?

This is the kind of thinking that's going to result in Greece being ejected from the Eurozone and going further into a depression.

Social Security plus Medicare plus Welfare combined, doesn't even come close to our yearly war expenditures.

Social Security shouldn't be added, as it's broadly understood to pay for itself already.

First of all, Social Security is paid for by a separate tax. It doesn't contribute to the national deficit, because it is funded as its own thing, directly and wholly from those taxes. In other words, no extra funds from the general budget are added toward Social Security. Secondly, it's invested in US Treasury Bonds, which beat inflation. So yeah, it does pay for itself. And that's why it's misleading to add Social Security to Medicare when we're talking about the general budget of the federal government. One pays for itself while the other does not (certain parts of Medicare require the explicit release of funds by Congress, above and beyond special taxes that fund Part A).

I'll take that as an "I understand."

Well, I presented what are generally referred to as facts, and you presented "Pfft!"

Forgive me for rushing to an interpretation. Obviously both of these viewpoints are equally valid.