[Former Proud Canadian]

It's really not that difficult:

1. Cut the size of government and government spending.

2. Exploit your own resources, especially energy.

3. Get out of the way.

The US could be there in a few years (months?).

[EGPWS]

Cut the size of government and government spending.

Piece of cake!......once you get by 535 hard core self anointed dictators starved for hard earned labor to buy votes in Washington DC.

[Little Ray]

I wish, but I don’t think it is going to happen.
The best we can do is slow the growth and impingement of government. Its not like any bureaucrats are going to give up pieces of their little empires for the general welfare of the Nation.