1. We've Got Issues
The majority of the federal budget goes towards the "big-ticket items" such as Social Security, national defense, and medicare. ... Bagby goes on the explain that Social Security is basically on its way out and that the money being paid now for social security is really being used by the federal government to loosen up our debts with other countries and our big problem, our national debt. ... Even though both the Democrats and the Republicans wish to take the Social Security off the nation's budget, the feds simply won't contest to it yet. The real reason is as Bagby states, "For yea...
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