Quote from Ricter:
Actually, the country is not broke. Our debt is mostly to ourselves and its servicing is entirely manageable, for now. Currency seems scarce, but it's really not, it's just "accumulated" in some fairly useless places (there's so much of it that some cry, "inflation is coming! inflation is coming!). Of course, when you have to have a balanced budget, like so many of the states (all?) do, then a currency "maldistribution" is problematic indeed. Perhaps your city has a local currency you could start earning? Admittedly, not an easy transition, I'm sure.