“the federal government had assets of $2.67 trillion”

Really? Does anyone really know the value of the assets of the Federal Government?

What about the huge Federal land-holdings, especially in the American West? What about the extensive Federal mineral rights, onshore & offshore, which could be sold outright instead of being leased? How much would someone pay for a National Laboratory? What would Google pay for the Library of Congress? Then there is the whole interstate freeway system which could be sold off and transformed into turnpikes. Launch facilities at Cape Canaveral. The Tennnesse Valley Authority. Yosemite.

One of the optimistic scenarios is that the Federal Government eventually has to sell off some of those national assets to fund their Ponzi schemes. It might be a good way of keeping faith (to some extent) with those who have been defrauded by the politicians’ schemes while simultaneously (and permanently) rolling back the size & scope of the Federal Government.