BFD "Has anyone mentioned that we are $9 TRILLION IN THE HOLE?" How much is your mortgage? Is it 3 times your annual income? And do you haave a huge base of assets that collateralize it such as half of the land of the Western states? Is anyone losing sleep over your home mortage? You or your banker. Probably not.
So also, the national debt is no big deal.
Considering demographics it is a wonder that this stubborn bit of ideology has any traction right now. Baby boomers are retiring and cannot be replaced by gen Y, due to population control policies. Unemployment rates are low yet we have a large cohort of illegals somehow working off the books. Unless you want to live in a do-it-yourself nursing home where you have to cook your own food and empty your own bedpan, you'd better get real.