Give me a break...
If a Republican candidate was proposing even reigning back, never mind cutting, the massive social/retirement spending that accounts for almost two-thirds of the entire budget, the Democrats would be squealing like stuck pigs over the candidate's fervent desire to see women/children/elderly/cute little puppies die bleeding in the streets.
And any jackass candidate who mentions deficit reduction and national medical care in the same breath needs to be beaten into insensibility with a 200-pound dead sturgeon.