As for the national debt, we have trillions in untapped oil and gas and mineral resources. IER estimated the worth of the government’s oil and gas technically recoverable resources to the economy to be about 8 times our national debt a decade ago.
Adjust for inflation etc. and we aren’t so f’d. But that won’t get clicks or scare people support into supporting communists posing as moralists.
The article “Americans own, everything that US businesses own, every piece of land, every piece of assets in the United States is valued at $207 trillion. But the combined debt and unfunded liability of the US is already $316 trillion.”