IMHO, let it go, just pile on more debt and higher taxes. The economy is already in the toilet, that will just flush it.
By the fall of 2012, every American will be squeeling...
Europe will be in some kind of stumbledrunk economic collapse, banging on Germany's door like a drunk coming home at 3:00am.
Germany's just gonna say "go away" !
Things have to really collapse before people get good and mad at the immoral mess that America and Western civilization is in.
Then we'll have a "fixer" like Michele Bachmann. When things are REALLY bad, when the fixer comes, you don't ask questions, you don't have demands, you don't even ask the price. You just do what the fixer tells you.