[insane_dreamer]

It's important to separate SS/Medicare from the rest of budget for these discussions, because those are non-discretionary, which means that the government can't re-allocate that money elsewhere or spend it on something else. Those are also categories where each taxpayer directly and personally benefits, and in the case of SS in proportion (roughly) to what you put in (unless it breaks/goes broke, that's a different conversation). That is completely different than the actual Federal Budget, which is determined by WH+Congress, from which you and I do not directly benefit (unless you're a shareholder of Lockheed Martin or Raytheon, or you're Don Jr. or Kushner), and which they can determine spending on.

And when it comes to that discretionary Budget, roughly 1/3 goes to the Military and 1/3 goes to Debt Servicing.

And the primary reason we have so much debt is because of the military spending, since that's our biggest expense and because the government can't borrow to fund SS and Medicare.

So basically, we taxpayers are funding a military state and subsidizing the defense industry (while being told that subsidizing any other industry is "un-American".