Solution? Go write to your government that you want to be removed out of registry of voters and learn to live independently. (Along the way you'll see how free really are you) Enough people do that there will be no one to oppress the system on. Otherwise you'll always have some system and someone to impose their will on you.
OK!

I guess I can take off a billion USD off the 40Tr debt with that! I never thought it was so easy....
jk, just like you.
OK, the US govt can sell off some parts of their part of the Moon, Mars, and Jupiter to some rich people. The proceeds can go towards debt reduction. Only one stamp paper is required in the process, and some free time of some jobless attorneys. A few billion dollars less to worry about. There will be many takers... Anyway every government is doing the same about their part of earth -- selling state-owned land for multimillion dollars which go into their own pockets after doing the
necessary accounting process. This time they can help the debt go down a bit...
Jokes apart,
Guys, if we see a problem, we try to find a solution. Why do you think you can't think of any better things? Anyway you are paying through your nose, and you don't even know if the books are verified constantly from the beginning! I had seen the Time Keeper movie, and it had a better time keeping system than this nat. debt clock. I don't know but I guess that it has stopped being logical many years ago...
I read this:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/sep/17/economist-global-debt-clock
Somewhere it says that those guys admit that the clock isn't perfectly accurate...
And, are they keeping tabs on how much the governments owe the people of the nation? There is something called a double-entry accounting system. No proper potable water provided -- nat debt amount reduced, no proper air... no proper security provided..., no attention to health problems... no this and no that... why isn't the debt reduced? The governments are supposed to be tax collectors aren't they? So they are responsible for the value they provide against the tax they should be collecting. There are so many things that aren't accounted for. Bring them under some account heads and balance the books... May be the $40Tr is not that huge repayment task after all...
So are the authorities keeping the books accurately? Are there these accounting heads in those books? Aren't they supposed to provide only the best quality services because they are supposedly the best in the world? And more than anything else, aren't you supposed to get only the best services from your top country and its world's best government who could provide those services if they really wish to?
Seriously, your kids will want to know why are you paying so much taxes and getting only a third or less of what you should be getting in return? Why was the mortgage frauds created in the first place? Who got hanged for the immense loss? Why are there so many wars and why your children go to those lands to fight 3rd-party wars? How much should go into the debt clock books to compensate for the ultimate human service (and ultimate sacrifices by those children and their relatives), giving away their precious and valuable lives, that your children willingly, or may be some of them were forced to, offer in the participation? Why shouldn't that go against setting back the national debt? Are their contributions valuable so that the debt can be set back a lot in this case? Are those precious values being calculated? Ask them, guys..
...if they provide you a service, say electricity, they charge you a lot, don't they? Then your children too have provided them a service, so why shouldn't that service be charged, if only to reduce the nat. debt? It's still okay to say they did a selfless job, but at least help them help reduce that nat debt after they gave the ultimate sacrifice, for gawd's sake! It would be a doubly great humane service of the highest level, and the huge sacrifice that also is rightly going into the accounts books for fulfilling another national cause. A service is a service is a service... which should have a place in any double entry accounting system. There is an exchange of something -- extremely valuable in this case. Don't you agree? Doesn't the winning general signs treaties that are "useful" to the winning country? Do they calculate the value by the children who participated, some died, some lost limbs or minds, ... Shouldn't that sacrifice go into reducing the nat. debt? If the answer is
no, then the whole system is ridiculous.
Ask questions, and get the answers from your representatives in the US Capitol. Ask them about those things that they are accountable for, and get the debt reduced. Or years down, your children's children aren't going to be too happy that you could have made their lives livable, but only chose to see who else wanted to? They would as well be the humble(d) dumb slaves of the System, like you know who...
The above-mentioned
children providing a value issue is just one way, there can be millions of such things that can help stop the dumb clock! At least ask those bankers why this is not an accounting process? If they value their dumb and profitless consultation as a value, then this is a billion+ times more important value to consider.
Disclaimer: I am just a layman, not a tax guru! lol