3. Abolish the Fed?
The Fed was originally just supposed to be a way of ensuring liquidity in a banking crisis. It's role as manager of the economy stems from abandoning the gold standard, which means that the value of money is set by interest rates, unconstitutionally transferring control of the currency to the Fed. Restore the gold standard and the Fed and overspending problem go away.
7. Disengage?
The bulk of US defense spending is on personnel, but the most wasteful part is the broken procurement system that funnels hundreds of billions to defense contractors with no requirement to produce working, affordable weapons systems. Go back to simply offering tenders for systems with stated capabilities and require the contractors to supply working prototypes like we used to do. The Navy should get its own design bureau and shipyards as it used to have because naval vessels are far too specialized for most civilian shipbuilding and right now there's zero surge capability for shipbuilding. And the reason we have forward deployed forces is that it's much cheaper to multiply force by deployment and fight on someone else's territory than rebuild defenses (coastal, air, land) in the US. Going back to a pre-WWII or even pre-WWI foreign policy will just get us WWIII. The whole libertarian/paleo-con fantasy that we will be left alone if we don't "meddle" is right up there with the delusions of the unicorn fart powered Green New Deal.
6. Default on the national debt?
I don't think the author has any idea of what this would mean. Think Weimar Germany, compounded by the inability to import the thousands of parts we need to make the US economy run as no one will take worthless US dollars. Everything from cars to combines to aircraft would cease to function within a few months.
I can see you know more than the rest of us. I do like the ideas though. If abolishing the Fed is good enough for Ron/Rand Paul it’s good enough for me.
Disengage. Doesn’t have to be 100% but it should be enough to scare everyone.
Default. A bitter pill yes. The youngest baby boomer will be 100 y/o in 2064. We could fix it by the time he/she turns 80 in ‘44. Baby boomers could make their mark like the Greatest generation who spoiled us. The left will try to trip us up every step of the way.
You are right it’s undoable. Still this will be a crisis and like the left we should not let it go to waste.