[Bernard]

If large publicly-traded corporations acted like this, the corporate officers would be charged with violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley act. Time to throw the congressional amoral scoundrels in jail.

For how long? Until the national debt decreases from one fiscal year to the next. The last time that happened was the fiscal year ending 12/31/1960.

[TheBattman]

Not going to happen. We are “too far” down the debt path.

The amount of spending cuts it would take to simply “balance” the budget is unachievable.

That being said - if we were to restore government spending to CONSTITUTIONAL stuff only - the debt could be paid off rapidly...