Credit card debt is something people choose to put themselves into. You can't go into debt without signing on the dotted line to be responsible for that debt an

Credit card debt is something people choose to put themselves into. You can't go into debt without signing on the dotted line to be responsible for that debt and agreeing to pay it back. Congress and the POTUS together are the ones that sign on the dotted line when the House and Senate jointly pass a budget (or a continuing resolution) authorizing the spending and the POTUS then signs it into law. So yes, they are responsible for authorizing the spending in the first place. Conversely, they are not responsible for the debt that individuals—even US Citizens, we are citizens and not subjects nor serfs after all and therefore are beholden only to ourselves—place themselves into.