Why the US Congress can not fix the budget problem

The financial problems faced by the Federal government are not new ones and have been building for decades. The American people knew they were coming, and those in charge in the federal government were not blinded to the issues. Why were these issues never addressed?

I believe the answer is the design of our federal government and the reasons behind it's particular organization. The federal government of the United States was setup by a group of men who feared tyranny. The men understood that the best way to prevent that kind of problem was to create a government that was weak and inefficient. Even as the federal government has become more powerful over the last 200+ years it has counterbalanced that improvement by becoming more cumbersome and inefficient. The Senate has grown from 26 members to 100 and the House has grown from 64 members to well over 400. In addition Congress costs about $6B a year and increases at a rate of roughly 14%. a true model of inefficiency.

So why can't Congress address the debit crisis? Simply stated because it was never designed to do that. It was designed to prevent tyranny.