The drainage of the empire

All empires fail because they bleed financially. As you can see by this article, we're playing right into our enemies hands, who have repeatedly said they want to bleed the U.S. empire dry. How much can we fork over each month, especially now that there's a credit/liquidity bubble about to implode, a few million foreclosures, inflation is up, etc.? We're broke and the only solution is a sound currency and reduction of the empire as the founders and framers wanted.