That's the idea, you are exactly correct. The system IS based on 999, or seen in another way, 666.
Cutting spending will not cure a debt-based ponzi fiat scheme, and any Rand Paul-like solution to do so only locks in place this failed bankstering schema that fills in for our financial system. Locking in $35.3 T in debt is no way to go.
A full collapse of the dollar is required, and that is what is actually underway, with BRICS, falling dollar relative to real money - gold, hoarding of gold by the central bankers. With this "reset", the national debt goes 'poof!'.