How to Begin

50% of Americans pay no taxes and 5% pay 60% of the collected revenue. Is this fair?
The annual deficit and the aggregate debts are so massive that all the talk of a few billion cuts here and there, or even a trillion or so, means little. To save us, we must slash two or three entire departments ( starting with energy, education and agriculture), end all agriculture subsidies, raise the retirement age, freeze cost of living raises for Social Security, eliminated food stamp and entitlements and do far, far more — while encouraging the private sector to drill, mine, grow food at unprecedented rates. Government needs to trim regulations and revise the tax code to mandate that every citizen pays the same flat, reasonable rate ( perhaps 15%).
But it is far easier to create monsters than slay them. Obama the dragon still menaces America. The current economic paralysis will persist as long as we continue demonizing the mythical “them” and until we stop acting like Greeks cursing better off Americans as if they were German bankers who are to be damned for their success. The creation of wealth benefits everyone; earning money is as natural as a turtle living within its shell. Without a shell is a turtle homeless? Yes and no. Naked, his biological necessity is perverted and he dies. Man without freedom is also homeless. Naked before dictators, he also will die.