Reply #1: This steaming pile of shit is gonna land right on the desk of

[tularetom]

the next President, probably a Democrat. There is no painless way out of this. It will require tax increases and cuts in government services for many years. It will cause a lot of pain for a lot of people in Amurka.

And it will require all the political skills imaginable to sell this course of action to us.

Don't spend your rebate. You're going to give it back to the IRS several times over in the next few years.

Best case? The economy goes into the shitter for the best part of a decade. Worst case? The United States of America goes bankrupt and goes the way of the Soviet Union.