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That would be hilariously funny if it wasn't so dam stupid. The United States is not in debt because it funds art. I was giving just one example of wasteful government spending.
Were you drunk when you wrote this? No, I was preoccupied with your mother in bed. 
The fact is, as a society, we have decided that we want to have a country which has value for living in-which includes nice roads, good hospitals, good schools, scientific research, culture, and entertainment. Yes, and some of those are the responsibilities of government and some of those are private endeavors. Why should the government fund artwork? What does the government have to do with individual expression?
Governments spend money, and in turn they create jobs I see you're from China and in your country the government sticks their nose in to everything. Granted. But the express purpose of my government is to be limited so that private enterprise can flourish. The government in my country creates government jobs. The government didn't create FedEx, General Dynamics, General Motors or the myriad of other companies that exist.
they circulate money throughout the society and they create worth. They create fiat currency, and what happens when no one wants to invest in your money anymore because it has no intrinsic value? It causes rampant inflation and essentially makes the value less and less.
Perhaps the only thing that causes our nation to incur debt as a result of spending, is when we wage war, and engage in other international escapes like in the middle east, where our money is handed out to Iraqi and Afghan warlords. The national debt started long before these wars. There is no one reason why there is such a staggering debt. There are multiple reasons, like the enormous debt on Social Security.
The main thing that destroys a country's economy and causes ruin, is when too much money is allowed to get into the hands of too few people. This is precisely what your vaunted "free market" actually achieves. Uh, what? Explain how free markets prevent too few people to get money when the explicit point is for all to have the unobstructed purpose of moving capital around.
No one would concern themselves with the long term goals of a company or society, instead they would simply make as much profit as quickly as possible, at the expensive of quality, at the expense of social responsibility, at the expense of employing as few people as possible, at the expense of transparency, at the expense of the country's future stability. If I can make more than my neighbor, in whatever legal means necessary, than that is nirvana. That's how it is in the real world. No one goes to work for the good of mankind, they go to work so they can feed themselves and their families! History continues to testify to this basic and simple economic fact.
Well, that may be nirvana for you, but it is not nirvana for a country. I suggest if that is your goal, go move to a small island and make as much money as you can all by yourself, because your ideals don't work at all with the concept of a community and a country. Really, is that why communism has been so successful? As professor John Nash illustrates, the most success one can achieve is to maximize and be most advantageous. Through both serving their own interests and the interests of everyone else. A healthy economy is where individuals are free to trade with minimal government interference. That serves all of society, even the government itself. Even in your country, they're figuring this simple principle. China today is not the China of the past. And they're flourishing as a result. "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams
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