I think a lot of Americans don’t even believe there’s a fiscal crisis. They’ve been hearing for years (those who occasionally bother to listen) that the govt can’t continue to spend more than it takes in, and nothing happens that affects them, so they don’t believe there’s really a problem.
If you ran your household, or I ran a business, like the corrupt, criminal US Govt runs itself, we’d have been bankrupt and living in a cardboard refrigerator carton, 70 yrs ago. We went over the ‘fiscal cliff’ 3-4yrs ago, and just haven’t hit the bottom, yet.
Old saying: “It’s not the fall which kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the bottom.”