You can start by recognizing that there is no chance of any program getting abolished, except maybe Obamacare prior to it starting up in full. People will fight to the death for their precious entitlement programs.
But people are just as willing to fight to the death for other people's precious unsustainble tax levels. We're drowing in Ronald Reagan and W's red ink.
Which goes back to what wormyguy was saying. The country is a train that's about to derail & nobody in office is willing to fix what is wrong. We'll be seeing progressively more of this insanity until the government finally goes bankrupt & the United States becomes a third-world country. By then it will be too late.
The United States only becomes a third-world country if at the point tough decisions need to be made we choose to keep a huge military over healthcare for poor people. Or if we decide that a 35% tax rate on Billionaires shouldn't increase but food stamps should be eliminated. When a country starts leaving large portions of it's populace in desperate poverty with no social safety net, it starts taking on the characteristics of what we like to call "third world" countries.
