There are times when I think I'm going too far in my belief that the United States of America has basically had it - that we're past the point of even grasping how to deal seriously with existential crises like debt and unfunded entitlement obligations, and that at this point it's really just a matter of how long the political class can maintain the illusion that everything is hunky dory until we wake up one day and we're told, sorry, it's been fun but nothing lasts forever.
