Fasting is good at times to help improve your health...  

 Prayer is effective if you know how and what to pray for!  {mainly none selfish things}

 But on the Federal Budget;  what don't you understand about "we (the U.S.) are broke!"

Surely even you hopefully understand that you can not go through life with a continual debt ( a form of slavery) hanging over your head...   It is not a political thing; it  is the welfare of the Nation and it's people that require we do something about the Nat'l debt crisis!