America was Great because the 90% tax bracket on the ultra rich funded wars and built the best educational, health, and road systems in the world, not to mention space, sciences, navel, you name it the list goes on.
And all of that, with virtually no debt, certainly no global economy ending sized debt.
I'm all for Frick and Frack seeking out, and eliminating, government waste and fraud, the more the merrier,
But, it is not going to have any significant effect on the deficit or the national debt. Only one thing can do that, we must bring back the conditions that created the greatest nation in the history of mankind on this planet.
The sooner we get started, the better.