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Main cause of the national debt is an aging population.

We collected $4.9 trillion in revenue (i.e. taxes) but spent $6.8 trillion in 2024. The deficit of nearly $2 trillion is adding to the national debt

60% of of that expenditure went to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. The bulk of our wealth went to the old and the sick.

Interest payments alone on the $38.5 trillion debt pile are about $1 trillion a year, exceeding the U.S. military budget.

We are 1,000% going to go bankrupt as a country, and fail as a country if we don't deal with the old and the sick.
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dale74 · M
Yet how many times has social security been robbed by politicians look up the amount that has been borrowed. Also it was supposed to be just for retirement but now it pays for disabled some disabled their entire life. (Those people need care but should have been out of a different fund not from the retirement that was paid in by workers.)