Dewophile,
After watching the 2008 debacle, the government will manufacture a solution. Key is that we still stay the best of the group.
You said you heard it all, how about this one. I've always said that the worst word ever created was the world Trillion. This year U.S. will be knocking on almost a Trillion dollars in deficit which will be added to the debt which is over $21 Trillion.
Now to put this in a term we can understand just think that One Trillion Seconds ago was 29,691 BC!
Have a nice weekend.