The ghoul in your avatar has directly ruled out so much as taking a little bit off the top of Entitlements so long as he is President, so try again.
And even in that case, entitlement reform will hit millennial, not boomers. The problem has a 10 year horizon, not a 35 year one. In other words, entitlement reform would have made sense if it had been done around 2000, rather than the Bush Tax Cuts. Now, it's too late.
So, what are your other ideas to raising revenue to pay for being a superpower?