By the numbers
National debt is over $14 trillion, the federal budget deficit is $1.4 trillion and, depending on whose estimates are used, the unfunded liability or indebtedness of the federal government (mostly in the form of obligations for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and prescription drugs) is estimated to be between $60 and $100 trillion.
Those entitlements along with others account for nearly 60 percent of federal spending. They are what Congress calls mandatory or non-discretionary spending. Then there’s discretionary spending, half of which is for national defense. Each year, non-discretionary spending consumes a higher and higher percent of the federal budget.
The spending path that Congress has chosen for the last half-century is unsustainable and will end up with economic collapse but little or nothing can be done about it unless I’m grossly wrong about the American people. Americans who detest our country and those who love our country are hell-bent, wittingly or unwittingly, on destroying it.
Walter E. Williams – Can Our Nation Be Saved
I’m not quite sure about a positive answer to that question.
It’s all part of the plan. When the helplessness gets bad enough, the Left will suggest that the only way out of it is to toss the entire Constitution and start over, with a “new” Constitution along European lines. No Bill of Rights. The key to this will be when the first Leftard “admits” it’s hopeless. Events will happen rapidly after that. Someone WILL jump the shark, and kick off Revolution Two before it’s time, and THAT event, minor in nature, will be used to declare an emergency and suspend civil rights. THAT’S when the streets need to be full of armed men, not before.