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The conversation makes a compelling comparison between national finances and personal debt management. Like a single parent trapped in a cycle of negative earnings—racking up credit card debt to cover mandatory expenses—the U.S. government is borrowing more just to service existing debt. This creates a snowball effect: as debt rises, interest payments balloon, forcing further borrowing, and drowning the nation into a Ponzi-like structure where the only way to sustain the system is constant, unprecedented money printing.