The government has three options to deal with the debt:
1. Deflate the currency
2. Default (not the bogus default cried up during the Debt Ceiling fracas) - but real default where bonds are not honored
3. Seize wealth of private citizens
I'm going with #3 as the preferred alternative. We're already in a currency war, so 1 is in process. The Feds are not going to default on the Chinese...so nationalizing 401Ks and IRAs in the name of Retirement Security is the best bet. It will fail, ultimately, but the capital will enable the Feds to kick the can down the road a bit more while funneling all that funding to their cronies (and themselves).
There is little choice after that socialist bailout of the rich banks in 2008 gave all this nations wealth to the top 1%. These assholes caused the problem & turned around & took the wealth of the country in return. There should have been a collapse of all the investment banks. The commercial banks holding the average Joe's money was not going under & was guaranteed to $100k per account. The communist seized these accounts & merged them with the corrupt insolvent investment banks & got $2.5 trillion from the fed that they will never pay back.
All of the 1% would be broke or knocked down to the $100k range had it not been for that bailout. They made bad investments & hedged them with insurance from an insolvent company. The free market would have leveled them. The stolen wealth must be redistributed back to the people to repair this economy.