This is all for nought until something is done about federal spending.
“This is all for nought until something is done about federal spending.”
Absolutely. Congress’ response? “I know! Let’s raise the debt limit! That will fix things. More borrowing!!!”
“federal spending” is the tip of the iceberg. The only SURE cure is to shrink the GD federal government by 75%, shutter entire departments, and get the GD federal government back into its Constitutional duties and constraints. But Hell will freeze over first.
What stops us from putting government back in its box? Too many in Congress and the Executive are getting rich, half of us are leeches are living off the government teat, racism has turned into a huge money-making industry, the open border has turned into a huge money-making industry, and the drug cartels own way too many politician and the Executive and Congress keep inventing ways to give away money. Reparations trillions coming up real soon now.
Can the problem be contained and then slowly solved. Nope, we are way past that. All we can do now is manage our inevitable decline. Sad to say. History has many instructive examples of once-invincible empires crumbling to dust along the very same trajectory we are on. Lots of empires lasted hundreds and even a thousand years. Ours lasted only a couple hundred.