You can't go picking out items in the federal budget and saying one thing is financed by borrowing while another isn't. It's all from the same pool of money.
No one should be getting anything that's been forceably taken from its rightful owner, but that's how governments operate. So trying to keep politicians from stealing from future citizens while allowing them to steal from present ones is simply an exercise in warping ethics that ultimately serves no one.
Eventually the whole corrupt system will have to collapse since there aren't enough decent people in government or voters who'll resist the impulse to behave unethically when it serves their selfish interests so well.
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