The fact we have severe budget problems is not in dispute. It never was. Your insistence in accusing me of denying the existence of those problems is evidence of your totally self-serving position and deliberate obfuscation on this issue. The real dispute arises in whether following your solutions is the answer to those problems. It won't, in fact, it played a major role in causing them.

The Right maliciously and artfully confuses these two completely distinct issues, (is there a budget problem, and what we do about it), so they can implement a policy that serves their purposes first and leaves the rest of us gasping for breath.

That policy is, essentially, "I don't care what happens to you, just don't you dare interfere with my ability to accumulate and hoard wealth any damn way I please, regardless of the consequences." And of course, any role the Right might have had in contributing to this lamentable state of affairs is conveniently ignored, as if they never controlled the means of production, the levers to political power, and the financial structure of the economy. I didn't cause the budget crisis. I paid my bills, paid my taxes went to work every day, and played the game by their rules. Don't blame me if the movers and shakers couldn't get it right and refused to listen to my advice.

You damned right I've got you sussed. The Right doesn't give a damn about saving the economy or the nation. They are just determined to be the ones that prosper from it.
The "religious belief" part comes from the faith they have that everyone else is so dense they can't clearly see what they're up to, and the faith their True Believer camp followers and sycophants have that if their heroes get their way the problem will vanish and they'll get a free ride to entrepreneurial Paradise.

You better learn to tread water, Tom. They haven't saved you a seat in the lifeboat.