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When those in power have abandoned the principles on which our system of government was built, and there is no guiding principle on which we operate, there is no logical possibility of resolving the debt. The only "solution" is collapse and rebuild.
We keep scratching the surface, tinkering around the edges, verbally flailing and floundering in a sea of "solutions" like budgeting, income control, foreign aid cuts, cut military spending, stay out of wars, changing tax policy, term limits, capping this or that, control or eliminate entitlements, and on and on. Some of which is actually tried, some of which won't be, and none of which will work. Because none are guided by an overall principle of government. All are temporary expediences, plugs in a dam which is too eroded to hold back the flood of chaos which comes when there is no creed, no article of faith in which we all believe, to keep us unified in our resistance to lawlessness.
Folks like me keep harping on getting back to constitutional principles, but that doesn't seem to catch on. Most folks seem to think we actually are operating under those principles. We are mostly happy in the wash of abundance, and satisfied to trust that our principles are intact, and that our pols just need to be more responsible.
But when there is not merely "Death due to excesses" that Nightfighter cites, but an actual campaign by many of those in power to dispatch our founding principles and replace them with the very ill that has caused the national debt, namely unlimited government, and they have successfully replaced the founding language with words and new meanings that gradually and eventually become and have become what we perceive as being true, we are left in the quandary of believing that we are basically OK. We just need to tweak a few things and stuff like the debt will be fixed.
No, we are not fundamentally OK. The body politic is sick. It's integrity has been destroyed. It has no guiding principle from which it perceives what is politically right and politically wrong. And there is no medicine to cure that. There is only the eventual collapse of that body, only to be revived by reinstituting its original creed, or creating a new one.
That's where we are. And our impending financial collapse may be the only cure to the rot that has invaded our national reason for existence.
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