You and I agree on this. So does that mean we abandon our conservative principles and flush it down the tubes faster!
By repudiating the debt, we save every nickel of interest paid on same as well as the principal that just never seems to come due since we keep on rolling over the debt. Our creditors don't know it but they are playing a game of musical chairs in which ALL the chairs are going to disappear simultaneously and permanently.
We then have to prioritize our governmental spending to meet the new reality of NO BORROWING. Unnecessary programs are mercilessly stripped away. Ruthlessly eliminate leftist lifestyle maintenance programs like college and university subsidies that allow no show "professors" to pontificate Marxist theory while collecting six figure salaries. Why are some municipal school superintendents collecting $300,000 salaries at our expense and then moving from system to system to get a full pension from each? Why do government employees collect pensions beyond the wildest imaginations of the taxpayers who are raped financially to pay those pensions?
Abolish all the liberal frills and fancy stuff with exceptions noted above.
Back to the original point of this argument. Agreeing to a chump change program of child care in exchange for long-term control of SCOTUS is an exceptionally good deal. Conservatism is about a lot more than mere money and about things like the babies' lives that are far more important than mere money. Beef up the military and border enforcement. Maintain life and death entitlements: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.