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You avoided the the counterpoint to your "entitlement drove debt", the entitlement revenue was GREATER than it's spending and the surpluses were used to cover up the discretionary spending.FICA funds two programs and two programs only. That the government has chosen to spend any surpluses in other areas does not change the fact that the current debt is approximately equal to the nation's entitlement spending that occurred over the past 50 years or so...
The current debt was not caused by entitlement spending, this coincidence you cite is not causation.