>federal spending is rising even as federal revenues have fallen, year over year You can count on that. Your government has a spending problem. It has gotten addicted to tax payer crack and can't stop. It borrows ever more money that it can't ever pay back. The interest on the debt now consumes most of the revenue it steals from taxpayers. There's a simple trick to fixing this though: going back to gold based currency. >the middle class is literally being hollowed out. >it is going to lead to enormous civil unrest during the chaotic years that are ahead of us. Unfortunately, this is a feature.