I think many Americans do not realize how much is spent on debt interest payments, which are a tidy source of income for rich people.
Not to mention insurance companies and pension funds, plus local, state, and foreign governments
But yeah, having to pay your debts do suck
Debt payments and defense budget increases add up.
I'm pretty sure most of us would enjoy a different timeline where we didn't sink over $1 trillion in the Iraq war or another $2 trillion on the F-35, where we didn't mindlessly increase the military budget every cycle, where Republican administrations didn't cut taxes on the wealthy every time they won the presidency in the last half century, or where the TSA and DHS weren't created.