Reimagining Social Security & Restoring Fiscal Sanity w/ Romina Boccia | Let People Prosper Ep.170

​Is America’s debt crisis the biggest threat to prosperity—and can we fix it before it’s too late?

In this week’s Let People Prosper Show, I sit down with Romina Boccia, one of the nation’s top fiscal minds and a fearless reformer when it comes to Washington’s runaway spending. Romina is the Director of Budget and Entitlement Policy at the Cato Institute, where she leads research on federal spending, debt, and entitlement reform. She’s also the principal author of Debt Dispatch—the number-one fiscal newsletter read by members of Congress—and author of the new book Reimagining Social Security: Global Lessons for Retirement Policy Changes.

I first met Romina during my time at the White House Office of Management and Budget, and I’ve admired her work ever since. In this episode, we talk about her journey from Germany to D.C., how she became one of the fiercest advocates for limited government, and why entitlement reform isn’t just a numbers issue—it’s about moral responsibility to future generations.
We unpack why the national debt—now over $37 trillion and rising by about $2 trillion a year—is a bipartisan failure decades in the making. Romina explains how unchecked spending, not too little revenue, is driving the crisis—and why sustainable reform to Social Security and Medicare is critical to preserving both freedom and prosperity.

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(0:00) – Introduction and Guest Background
(3:00) – Romina’s Journey from Germany to D.C.
(9:00) – The U.S. Debt Crisis and Its Root Causes
(18:00) – Entitlement Reform and Political Obstacles
(27:00) – Lessons from Reimagining Social Security
(36:00) – Immigration, Growth, and Fiscal Health
(45:00) – Restoring Sustainable Budgeting
(54:00) – The Future of Fiscal Reform