We have a Federal Reserve that creates money and debt at will, in a completely printed, fiat currency, with rates manipulated nearly to zero.
With a credit card like that and a new limit of $22 Trillion and rising, what politician needs to worry about spending?
I guess you have to try, but Ryan was a fool if he ever thought it would go anywhere.
You are, of course, correct.
And since the entire globe is SCROOOOOOD if the US suffers an economic collapse, nobody is likely to ever call us on it.