I don't know, ask the folks who live in Norway, or Peru, or Brazil. All places with a budget surplus. Or you could ask the folks in Iraq, also a country with a budget surplus. See how you can cherry pick this stuff, and how perhaps the situation in Venezuela or Ukraine maybe, just maybe, aren't completely relevant to the U.S.? It turns out Somalia also doesn't run a deficit, plus they have no burdensome federal government, or gun laws...and bonus they're a theocracy! Get a grip folks, the world's a nuanced and complex place.