So I got this amazing idea to help lower our national debt, it's going to sound crazy but trust me it's a good idea...lets get ride of all welfare programs entirely. See I figure that welfare is just incentiveizing being lazy and not working. People figure they don't have to work because Uncle Sam will provide no matter what, and we need to show them this simply isn't true. Now I see two possible outcomes to this, one being that without welfare people finally have the motivation to get a job so they can pay taxes and whatnot, and the debt decreases or the people will still be too lazy and figure “the government isn't going to let us die are they?” Which is exactly what we let them do, now we don't have to worry about them, and the national debt again will decrease.
See, if we stop paying attention to them they'll either...
A: Stop trying to get attention and become productive members of society
OR
B: Die and we forget about them
(Assuming they're not stupid they'll choose option A.)
We ignore the problem, it will go away!