That's just it. The US should not have any problem funding its social security, if it weren't spending trillions on a foreign war they have no hope of leaving anytime soon. The sinkhole is not the social programs - it's the war. And yet, so much of the American economy is built on the war machine that NOT going to war is almost as bad for the economy as doing so. It's a vicious circle, and it's spiraling towards the drain.