There's also no likelyhood that they'll change. The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money. Maybe our future economy will survive this expense. This is not a matter of being conservative or liberal.
Selfishness consumes our body politic.
It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. Only 18.5 percent of the population has that kind of money. Ninety-five percent of Americans are on the mooch. 104-105, by P. J. O'Rourke, 1991.