re: You could have spent 1 million dollars every single day since the year 1 AD..

Everything is a political suicide. Nobody actually wants to address anything anyways. We’re more focused on giving Jews money than our own debt

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The USA is currently at 39 Trillion in debt.

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The real threat to our national security. Half of the country ignores it at any given time depending on if their political candidate of choice is in office or not.

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Old people should have saved 401k and pensions and not solely rely on govt handouts right?

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How is it a handout when they take your money and give you some of it back?

Curious: so what happens if a poor person breaks a leg and needs surgery? Like I mean someone who doesn’t have insurance because low skill jobs don’t provide it but can’t afford it from secondary marketplace because min wage doesn’t keep up.

Like I’m not asking to be smart, I legit don’t know the answer. My ACL surgery was 60k (insurance covered most but I still paid 5k). Do they just go into debt rest of their life (if they even qualify) or just be crippled?

It's NOT a handout, dumbass.......it's a reimbursement of money we've paid in.

If we stopped giving money to every country going forward, we would still be in deficit yearly .

Cut social security

Stop being poor. You either cut social programs or live with all of them. They are a singular entity

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The national debt is a pointless measure. Who cares what it is? It’s not like anyone can do anything to demand payment?

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We pay around $800 billion dollars each year on the interest owed for the national debt. To put that into perspective, we are nearly paying more for our debt interest payments than we do for our department of war.

If the government decided to stop paying interest payments, our credit reputation would tank, causing numerous markets to crash. The treasury market in particular relies on the US government's history of never defaulting on interest payments. Long term impacts would include pensions and social security, a banking crisis (loans, savings, insurance, etc), and the end of the dollar as the global currency.

It bothers me when people think we just "print more money" to avoid paying the debt. Printing money increases the debt, which increases interest payments. When interest payments grow too high, we have to make cuts in other areas. Not to mention inflation that occurs with printing money, which causes more pressure on tax payers to make ends meet, which makes it more difficult for the economy to thrive if they are paying higher taxes to pay interest on the newly printed money.

Right now, we are still the world's largest economy by far and ensure global hegemony with our military. You're right that it's not THAT big of a deal in the short term, but the long term consequences are inevitable. We will eventually accrue too much debt, struggle to make interest payments, and actually feel the consequences.