Solutions to US problems look so very different from outside the US. There are a lot of obvious things that can be done, with great effect. Reducing military budget is some of it, but it is far from "the solution".
The solution is more of actually figuring out what we're spending money on and who we're giving it to. When you start to realize a good portion of EBT users can afford food and use it for junk food and a sizable portion of welfare recipients do anything but live with it and that your tax dollars fuel these people, you feel an irrefutable feeling of doom.
The things you identify as problems, are completely opposite of what I see. I'm going to make a wild guess that you watch a fair bit of media owned by Murdoch. Feel free to correct me on that.
The 80s called and they want their "Welfare queen" talking points back.