The debt isn't the biggest issue or problem - it's government spending. As Milton Friedman pointed out, the focus should be on cutting government spending. If you focus on the debt, you're not focused directly on the issue - big government - and may unwittingly allow a forced "balanced budget" to do what the Left hungers for: raised taxes - a killer.
Secondly, there's a lot of debate on the Right about amnesty. But amnesty and illegals are not our #1 problem or threat to our freedom - the gorilla government is. There's a lot of issues and candidates the Right disagrees on. Again, the Right has to decide what is the most important issue and unite behind that issue and whoever best supports it - I don't care if it's Donald Duck. Otherwise the Right will have played right into the Left's hands and as far as the electoral process goes there's little hope.
So then as I see it, the only other option is the limited Convention of States proposed by the Citizens for Self-Governance and if that fails, possible state nullification and steps toward state financial independence from the federal government.
Please direct me to the text of the budget the current government is operating under. Oh yea...there isn’t one. so your 6T figure is invalid.
The only debate on amnesty is if you side with liberals on the issue or not. Amnesty is binary. Either / Or. Yes or no.
Conservatives say no. What say you?