Good post and pretty good exhaustive list. The most vexing thing is the $15,455,800,000,0000+ debt and counting. No matter what we are, Obama is, the next Pres, it does not matter as $20,000,000,000,000 is the final cut off.
It is mathematically impossible at that point to pay off our incurring debt. The reason is at that amount, even if government were to cease all operations and concentrate all taxes on paydown of that amount of money, it is self perpetuating.....
And that is only $4.6 trillion dollars away.......
Number 13 of the 13 points of the end of civilizations, without exception, over the last 5000 years.---Insurmountable debt.
Robert