why doesn't ben ever mention this when speaking about social security? <<<<---this is the running tally just for the us intragovernmental debt. these unfunded liabilities include medicare (~70% of picrel) and social security (~25%) and disability (~5%). $152 trillion (us taxpayers paid $237 billion in interest on this debt in fy 2024 alone). this is the amount that is owed out as of today based on what was taken in, in (mostly) payroll taxes. this does not include the ~$35 trillion in marketable debt that the public is always bitching about (us taxpayers paid $896 b in interest on this in fy 2024 alone). so, the running tally for us currency borrowed from the private federal reserve's debt franchise is ~$187 trillion.  $187 fucking trillion. it is remarkable how many social attention whores have a consistent aversion to mentioning the fed, though our debt-based federal reserve note is quite literally the fucking problem. why is this?
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