Inflation is always the political solution of choice. That's how the U.S. paid for the Vietnam war and the "Great Society" at the same time. IMHO, that's also how this recent "war on terrorism" will be paid for.
In addition, I think the SS/Medicare ponzi scheme will be "paid for" the same way. We can only hope that we don't have to go through what the Germans of the Weimar Republic did in the 1920s...
You have been frighteningly correct in some of your projections. I was so pleased the Regan removed inflation from the nation's economy, I just hope it does not return to the degree it has in the past. You do have a point though.