The Federal Government Will Never Balance the Budget In This Generation

I'm making a dark prediction, not based on any special prophetic knowledge from God, or any insider information. This prediction is based entirely on nothing more than common sense. In this generation of voting adults, our federal government will never balance the budget or stabilize the economy or give us the opportunity to fully realize the American Dream. That's because the steps that would be necessary to return America to its pre-1930 prosperity would be too drastic for even American voters to accept, much less Congress. So instead, nothing but temporary and unstable patches will ever be applied to this modern economic disaster.

What would need to be done if we were to have a balanced and stable budget and a sound economy? Here's my short, abbreviated list:

1. Remove all of our troops from everywhere except within the borders of the USA. Not just Libya and Iraq, EVERYWHERE. No more world-policing.
2. Decriminalize all drugs, not just marijuana. States should be solely responsible for substance abuse laws, and if the federal government stopped spending our money investigating, prosecuting and incarcerating non-violent offenders, billions of dollars would be saved annually.
3. Decriminalize all "victimless crimes." No victim, no crime. See #2 above, and add billions more in savings, from incarceration expenses alone.
4. Return all federal lands to the states and eliminate all national forest, parks and monuments bureaucracies. The federal government owns Washington DC. Everything else belongs to the states and the citizens.
5. Eliminate all redundant federal bureaucracies, beginning with the TSA. Before the TSA, there was efficient, constitutional, non-invasive airport security. Those were the good ol' days.
6. Abolish the Fed and send those crooks to prison. After releasing all the potheads, there will be plenty of room. Replace the Federal Reserve counterfeit notes with a stable solid-asset currency, minted by the federal government or independent mints, including Indian nations. Currency based on pretty rocks would retain its value better than printing press paper.
7. Strike all regulations, taxes, fines and fees for engaging in free enterprise that have buried small businesses and favored giant corporations. You could virtually abolish everything and leave businesses alone unless they are engaging in fraud or crimes with victims. Hmmm, that would force lots of bureaucrats to pack their stuff and go get real jobs, like the rest of us.
8. I know you've got more ideas, don't you. So why not type some of them into the comments box below.

Do these ideas sound too extreme? Maybe our government would never do any of this? If you think so, please refer to the title of this short note. Now you know why.