Not that I want to be contrary, but social security was set up by the government where people paid into it and the government managed their payments and when they retired there was something there for them. The problem was that governments treated this money as though it were their own private piggy bank. I was a teacher in my former lifetime. We paid into our pension fund just our government decided to cut expenditures.
The government was only too happy to hand what we paid into our pension fund back to us for our management. It was the luckiest thing that ever happened in our jurisdiction. The government lost control of the economy when oil prices fell and they couldn't tap into our pension fund.
The numbers are so horrific and the problem so hard to solve, and we can't really tell what is going on by color.
It is that it is impossible to tell which is which without a color code on the legend. But the three largest on the right are defense, Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. You shouldn't be too resentful about helping senior citizens drawing pension funds. It isn't their fault that the money they have paid into the fund was misused by the government.
I would say the answer is A. Most people on social security in the United States draw a pension of roughly 1000 a month. That adds up to a lot of money paid out to many people. It doesn't add up to a wonderful living, but people can get by.
