Over the years, the public has gotten so addicted to government programs everything from Social Security to Food Stamps and in many ways the military keep the population pacified.
Nothing will change until the rest of the world forces the changes on the USA either thru direct military action or a debt crisis that cripples everything.
The Chinese may say either the US government accepts Chinese financial supervision or the dollar will not be convertible at the Chinese central bank.
Without convertibility, Walmart shelves and Amazon warehouses would soon be mostly empty.
Lance the boil.
Cancel it all - today.
It will leave us no worse off than Germany on June 5, 1945 or Japan on August 30, 1945, and we have the advantage that everything is not destroyed.