Reply #59: I think it is full speed ahead, until BOOM

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Then everything implodes.
That is why I think there is so much theater about social security, medicare, health care, unemployment, taxes, the national debt, the debt ceiling, etc. Everybody knows taxes should be raised and things should be cut. But nobody can agree on anything. Eventually there will be a tipping point trigger, and the economic situation will be dealt with then. And nobody is going to like it.