It's interesting who the USG owes money to. A non-trivial portion is to social security - ie, the government borrowed from the social security trust fund and ha

It's interesting who the USG owes money to. A non-trivial portion is to social security - ie, the government borrowed from the social security trust fund and has yet to pay it back. So politicians vote to borrow against this fund to pay for an astronomical defense budget then unsurprisingly start "sounding the warning" that social security will run out of money...