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The unemployment rate has nothing to do with how many people can claim unemployment, as it is measured in a completely different way. Still, even if you increase the labor force by 25%, that still wouldn't be enough to make up the gap.
Social security is not related to need, and actually if you increase people's income you also increase the pay out. Similarly, as you increase the number of people working and contributing to it, you also increase the pay out.
Cutting the "pork" is amounts to less than 1% of the budget.
Fact remains that you either have to have deep cuts into medicare, social security and defense spending, or you have to raise taxes. There are no two ways about it.
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