The grand lie of our government needing money to enable its spending is simply a projection of how the "little people" relate to money in their daily lives. Most of them will become angry if they ever discover that it is government that creates its own unit of measure and will attempt to limit that via debt ceilings or deficit reduction. It is extremely difficult to discuss the reality of money creation and government's deficit spending as the "source" of all money in the economy without upsetting the people who would most benefit from understanding, and drawing their ire. It may not be possible to restore economic reality in a democratic system such as we have.