RE: Reality checkYep, the US is in a heap of trouble as the only solution is to inflate away their debt obligations. Funding Medicare, Social Security, etc, etc???.......the Federal gov't can't rely on tax revenue as REAL unemployment is growing, and home foreclosures have ravaged, and continue to ravage the average American's net worth. But it's not restricted to the Federal level......many individual states and municipalities are also technically bankrupt. This is clearly going to get allot worse. Perhaps the best case scenario is that the average American will only experience a dramatically lower standard of living. But from the ruins a rebuilding process can take place - one based on manufacturing real things, real services......rather than spawning new generations of investment bankers....and newer, more duplicitous ways of manipulating the balance sheets of corporate America.