Social Security should be paid out in a lump sum and the program ended. The government should not be your financial planner.
Public education should be education only and not a social safety-net distribution hub. It does not take a village to raise a child but it does take parents willing to put their kids future above their own priorities. That's a culture thing that needs fixed. The government is not the fix.
The strongest government in your daily life should be your local government. The weakest should be the federal. If you do not like what your local government is doing, run for office, vote the current servants out, or move.