Indeed :tup:
Like I keep saying, America's wealth is an illusion and those images put that illusion into a 3-D context that people can easily understand.
How do you pay back that amount of debt? Cuts wont do it - they'll only serve to undercut the infrastructure you need to make a start. Holding down spending increases whilst taxing harder has a chance but it's a long-haul deal. There's no 'quick pain' and then it's done solution for this one - other than defaulting, giving the (fully justified) finger to the global banking system and starting again with an income base you can support ... which will be a lot lower than even poor American's have been used to.