This country is built on a house of cards that will only remain standing as long as we keep adding more cards to it.
Divide the national debt by the working population in this country, and you'll find that your average married couple with a family is carrying something like $408,000 in Federal debt. That's like carrying a mortgage without having a place to live.
We've reached the point where we have opened the immigration floodgates because we desperately need more people who are dumb enough to sign up for that deal.
Add in student, car, house, and then SS debt (and yes, it is debt) and you get to a rather disturbing place.
Dump the various military obligations of empire, and it gets rather stark. Then the fact that only the middle really pay taxes, and that number gets so high it is meaningless.
Regan got tricked.