Anna Kasparian

So I remember what America was like prior to 9-11.

9-11 crushed this country.

9-11 convinced Americans to give some of their civil liberties away to our federal government in the name of national security.

9-11 encouraged the United States to go

to the Middle East and engage in wars that we should not have engaged in, especially Iraq.

And it hasn't ended since then.

I mean, 9-11 is what persuaded the American people that it was a good idea to go into debt in order to fight these wars.

We had an economic surplus in the beginning of the Bush administration.

We are now drowning in federal debt, $38 trillion.

It's getting worse every single year.

And just to go back to what you said about Ben Shapiro, he and I were debating on a CNN panel where the topic of Social Security came up again, and he just kept talking about how Social Security is bankrupting this country.

When I challenged him by mentioning the trillions of dollars the United States has spent on, yes, supporting Israel through military aid, but also other things like bribing Egypt to play nice with Israel and the trillions of dollars that we have fought

in wars on behalf of Israel.

You don't think that that's crushing our economy a little bit?

You don't think that's contributed to our debt far more than our social security system?

Which I will admit, yeah, there is a funding issue there, but Americans have paid into that system.

Americans are entitled to that system.

Right.

OK, they weren't handed that money.

That money is the result of their hard work and their contributions to that program.