Government Spending Inertia

We have 3 choices as a nation, and if we don't choose, one will be chosen for us...

We can either collapse under the weight of the government like Greece, revolt and overthrow the government like Poland, or do something new and totally American and actually vote in people who are willing to resist the inertia that this runaway train has built up and work to shut down programs and stop spending borrowed money for programs we don't need.

Each of these choices will have some pain involved. Collapse will be the worst, with rioting and chaos. Revolt would have a period of transition as a new government is assembled, and likely include rioting and chaos, but perhaps on a lesser scale. The solution that our founders built in to our Constitution of voting out the current government and electing small government constitutionalists is something that history has never seen. Obviously the people suckling from the teat of the government will feel the most pain as the well dries up. Hopefully they will see the error of their ways and return to contributing to society rather than leeching off of it.

Today the debt of our government, of our nation reached an amount equal to our GDP. Every dollar made would be required to pay off our debt. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon [sic] to realize that this is not sustainable. We have to stop subsidizing programs that do not work, stop regulating and taxing businesses to death, and shut down military bases that we have spread across the globe.Also we will have to cut back on social programs that are bleeding us dry. When social security started, the life expectancy for men was 62 years. So if you made it to 65, you could collect some money. Now men are living to 80 and collect for 15 years. There's just not enough money there.

There is no other way to rebound from this debt without making drastic cuts in spending.
If we don't elect representatives that are willing to make the tough choices, then the decision will be made for us and we will be left to deal with the consequences...