How can they afford it? What do you think America is doing in Afghanistan. Helping? No, they are in control of something like 90% of the world's heroin supply. That is hundreds upon hundreds of billions of dollars a year that are completely off the books.

So yeah, on paper America is broke, that way they can avoid having to do things like fund schools, and try to better the life of their citizens, in general. In the back rooms everyone is only getting richer.