As a Californian I think there is a political way out. Calfiornia has gone down the road that the U.S. is headed down so you can sort of see the results. Basi

As a Californian I think there is a political way out. Calfiornia has gone down the road that the U.S. is headed down so you can sort of see the results. Basically what has happened here is that conservatives who believed in small government lost out to liberals who promised the government would solve everything. Those conservatives then becamse "social conservatives" and started focusing on a bunch of hedge issues while promising to spend as much as the liberals (which is basically where the U.S. is now). Now we're out of money and those "social conservatives" are now turning back into "fiscal conservatives" because the public has finally started to realize spending like there's no tomorrow doesn't work. For the record I think there's one more step here where liberals start to become more fiscally conservative and focus on ideals that don't cost anything to change like gun control. Think Clinton era liberalism. But that's just my opinion. So really the political answer to the problems the U.S. now has is to get into enough financial trouble to give political cover to those politicians who would propose spending cuts.