Another alternative would be to take control of their own finances by nationalising the US central bank.
I think JFK had it right with
Executive Order 11110. It's a shame he was murdered before it could see fruition and every president since has been unwilling to correct this travesty to the American people.
Jim Marrs, in his book Crossfire, presented the theory that Kennedy was trying to rein in the power of the Federal Reserve, and that forces opposed to such action might have played at least some part in the assassination.[16][17][18] Marrs alleges that the issuance of Executive Order 11110 was an effort by Kennedy to transfer power from the Federal Reserve to the United States Department of the Treasury by replacing Federal Reserve Notes with silver certificates.
I think every president preceding him noticed that if they wanted to be alive for more than a couple days after they issue the order, it's best of for them to just forget about it.
But back to the topic.
The US debt ceiling is never going to stop being pushed up, there is no real way for politicians to be able to get reelected on the basis of fixing the debt problem in this country. Yes, I do understand that some do, but there's no way that a majority is getting elected on this issue. People care a lot more about their safety (military), their welfare programs, their social security, healthcare, etc for this to be a major issue to them.
This is the type of issue that people feel like they can just kick the can on and hope the next generation does something drastic to fix the problem. I don't agree with this, but I'm someone who is realistic about solving these issues.