I think we are reaching a saturation point. I do not think it’s irreversible.
You get in there, clean up welfare, slice a number of departments, stop agencies like the EPA from destroying this nation, and things can be turned around.
Paying off half a trillion dollars on the national debt each year would help relieve the pressure in short order, and that’s just from welfare alone.
Start closing departments and spark our economy increasing tax receipts, this can be done.
While I appreciate this issue being brought up, I’m not convinced this has to be fatal at this point. Even the writer seems to think in terms of a slow decline.
We could get healthy in short order with the right guy in there.
Welfare
Closing Government Departments and Agencies
Putting people back to work / increased tax receipts
We could easily see a trillion dollar flip here.
Over twenty years you pay off the national debt.
Folks, with the right team, this is an easy fix.
The question is, do we have the resolve to put the right team in?
We have Boehner and McConnell...
We will be forced to distinguish between debt and unfunded entitlements. The former needs to be paid (or inflated away) unless one is willing to risk a collapse of the banking system. The unfunded entitlements are another story. These are vast obligations we have promised ourselves at the expense, of course, of future generations who have had no say in the matter. These will, simply, not be paid in full. Future generations are under NO obligation to fund our insane irresponsibility. Sooner or later, they will simply say no. The real argument is when and how the cuts will be made.
You will see neither party even attempt it. To clean up welfare would see riots of millions and millions who now and forever need it to survive. The EPA could be disbanded but the damage already done would take many years to reverse because it would have to be done piece by piece. Slice departments, what would America do with all that additional unemployment? Hand them a monthly check? It will take many years for the job market to restart.
America has been driven down so bad it might never recover no matter who controls the Presidency, Senate, and House. Then the communists control of the Supreme Court, not a damn chance. Sorry, I see no real chance.
Most of the outlays of the Federal Criminal Enterprise is dispensing ‘free’ money to senior citizens via Social Security and Medicare. Throw in WIC, welfare, free this, free that to any voting minority and you wind up with an intractable problem. Let’s not even bring up Federal and state underfunded pensions, a military that we can’t afford and some 2 or 3 million Federal Criminal Enterprise employees who are incapable of doing any kind of work other than filling out a weekly status report and what do you have - a rotting corpse of a once great country. The best we can hope for is a new Dark Ages.