> _most_ of the federal budget goes to SS and medicare / medicaid Okay but social security isn’t the government’s money, it’s ours. The program is profitable a

> _most_ of the federal budget goes to SS and medicare / medicaid Okay but social security isn’t the government’s money, it’s ours. The program is profitable afaik (gets more than it pays out). Govt is just holding/managing the money and needs to track it as debt when they use that money for anything other than giving to people.