If the only thing the government did was pay for SS, Medicare, Defense and made minimum payments on the debt, it would cost about $2.9T. Our revenue is expected to bring $2.4T.
(millions)
Department of Defense-Military $723,703
Department of Health and Human Services $926,236
Interest on Treasury Debt Securities (Gross) $464,706
Social Security Administration $789,034
They need to pay us back the money they confiscated from our employers and us for a retirement benefit they can not afford to pay and then end the sham programs.
If they can pay off the banksters and corporations of the world for the shams and failure, they can pay off the American people they shook down.