I believe it can be done without undue cruelty, but I do not think most people realize the true enormity of what must be changed. The country needs to be vastly different if we are to have any hope at all. As a start -- a bare start -- the federal budget should be cut in half. Not over night ... but not "over the next 50 years" either: because we all know that stuff never happens. They need 10% annual cuts in every freaking budget. Year after year after year.
RIP THEIR THROATS OUT AND FEED THEM TO VULTURES!
Yes, I hate them that much.
F U B O!
Eliminate base line budgeting...
Cut all departments 10% in year 1 and decrease 10% thereafter until department is gone except for those that are constitutionally authorized...
Pass a budget in the house and senate BEFORE ANYONE in Washington is paid including congressional staffers...
Allocate at LEAST 10% of the budget for debt reduction...
That’s a start...
Start firing people until someone talks. Decimation. Every 10th person is fired. No unemployment, no pension, cant even keep your IRS coffee mug.