“Once debt payments consume the budget”
Once the INTEREST payments on the debt ALONE consume the budget...
We could right the fiscal ship if we would simply:
1. stop endless wars
2. stop the gargantuan “green” beast (that MIGHT decrease temperature 0.1 degrees in 100 years)
3. stop feeding and caring for 50 million illegals (deport all of them, close the border, and put away all the “Welcome Illegals” signs)
4. stop all the absurd pork barrel spending
5. stop all the vote buying (#4 is largely done to buy votes, too)
But nobody in government, least of all the senior “leadership,” has the will to do any of that. To start down that road we would need serious leadership that would:
1. repeal the 16th Amendment (income tax)
2. repeal the 17th Amendment (direct election of Senators)
3. repeal the 19th Amendment (women right to vote)
4. require property ownership to vote
It's not about repealing Amendments. The Constitution and laws are pieces of paper. They don't matter if you can't enforce them.
If we cut off entitlements, or try to deport illegals, there will be BLM style riots -- but on a far greater scale.
So you would need the will and power to crush the riots, and forcibly deport men, women, and children.
To do that, you would need the loyalty of the police and the military, and the will to use them.
Laws no longer matter. Control of the streets does.
The problem for America is Washington. Our only hope is to get enough Rand Paul type folks elected to Congress, the Line Item Veto, and zero based budgeting. The Federal Government needs to shrink by about 40% for starters. The US has suffered a number of slow downs and recessions since WW2, while Washington has suffered none.