OP here. Spending more than you take in tax revenue leads to a budget deficit. Budget deficits have to be made up with borrowed money, which in practical terms are treasury bonds. Interest on the borrowed money starts out low. But with the power of compound interest, it will eventually swallow and consume everything if left unchecked because it grows exponentially. The way this is fixed is by balancing the budget and leaving a little budget surplus to pay down the debt.

All of the money that would’ve been going towards the military, the schools, the electric grid, the roads, job training & placement for unemployed people, food stamps (snap), social security, medicare, agriculture storage, and the various 3-letter departments must go to interest on the debt first and none of the money is left over to go to programs for The People anymore.

What would you do as a congressman if for every $4.5 Trillion you brought in from taxes, you saw $6.2 trillion being spent and were left with a $1.7 Trillion budget deficit?

$870 Billion of the money spent (14%) is the interest growing on the total government debt which is at 34 Trillion now. These are all the real numbers. What would you do as a congressman whom has the power to make changes and balance the budget?

Persistently high inflation and economic decline, plus geopolitical blunders, leading toward US treasuries beginning to lose their status as global reserve asset and precipitating a US debt crisis.

What has caused disruption in the past? Greed, I suppose.

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