(Thanks, m. :)

Reader m. writes:

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US Debt: Over 30 trillion dollars. Chinese lent US money for operating costs for years. They stopped this year.I had to google a trillion dollars. It is a million million.

What happened to US taxes that WE thought paid expenses?

Trump has said he reads Art of War by Sun Tzu.

That book advocates "allow your enemy to destroy themselves."
Military budget was said to be the easiest to steal from....of course, money that was supposed to the American people was also used in the way of social security, medicare and medicaid.Since the US owes over 30 trillion in debt. China stopped lending to US this year., where does the money come from for operating costs?

"The amount of money the federal government has borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, the Medicare trust fund and other government agencies just crossed the $5 trillion mark.

Politicians downplay the number, saying it isn't really debt; it's money the government "owes itself." But the bulk of that $5 trillion doesn't belong to the government. It belongs to current and future retirees. The only way this debt "doesn't count" is if the government has no intention of paying its obligations to America's retirees."

Link https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/social-security-goes-bust-in-2020-leaving-half-a-trillion-in-annual-deficit/

WE have a very high retirement age. 67. WE bombed the daylights out of Syria for "regime change".
Their retirement is men 55, women 50.....also manage to give free health care and higher education.
So, guess WE bombed them for oil instead of regime change.

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