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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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you can judge a society by how they treat their elderly..

these ppl contributed their entire lives, and their nest eggs.safety nets are being raped and pilaged by unchained migration and freebies.

you dont think whats gone on in Minnosota .. upwards to 100B fraud. isnt happening across the country?.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout People are living longer thanks to better healthcare. The money set aside for their retirements has not increased sufficiently to offset this.

Most western societies treat their elderly very generously, with major wealth transfers from the working population to the retired who are typically the wealthiest section of society. The question is how much longer this can be sustained.
sree251 · 41-45, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout
you can judge a society by how they treat their elderly..

There is need to think out of the box and retire an unworkable paradigm.