Like a hot potato they won't come anywhere near it. They understand the principle involved and the catastrophic danger that looms ever closer, but they can't acknowledge it because their whole ideology would be revealed for the fraudulent and criminal enterprise that it is.
Yeah, you can tell the ones that really cause them pain, because you get crickets. There was a NY Post article about SS and the impending debt-- same thing. Where you expect to see their usual tripe, they were silent. Its a change - during the Bush years it was a "fabricated threat" I can't say we "got through" but I think its stirring a primal fear - a cognitive dissonance like they have never had before-- something that shuts down their normal defenses and forces them to stick their head in the sand. Something they cannot face, even to spew the usual stupid crap.
Obama demonstrated that Keynesian Stimulus DOES NOT WORK, "Smart" Diplomacy DOES NOT WORK, that the Blue Social Model is doomed out as Europe starts to collapse and the numbers show the same here, and increased numbers of people like me who are preparing for the worst, telling them to F off, and calling them fascists to their faces, and finally the fact that everything they do is now generating waves of laughter and ridicule in social media. Of all of these I think its the last that is having the greatest effect. They so much want to be part of the popular crowd, and I think its finally dawning on them what F'ing tools and sheep they are and they simply don't know how to cope with that fact- their egos are so invested. So they ignore it.