Does it help people contextualize what's going on when they attribute it to the SSN? The government borrows money and they way the government repays that is with your labour.

at the end of the World War Germany was burdened with her own debt of some 7 or 8 milliards of marks and beyond that was faced with the debts of 'the rest of the world' - the so-called 'reparations.' The product of Germany's work thus belonged not to the nation, but to her foreign creditors: 'it was carried endlessly in trains for territories beyond our frontiers.' Every worker had to support another worker, the product of whose labor was commandeered by the foreigner. 'The German people after twenty-five or thirty years, in consequence of the fact that it will never be able to pay all that is demanded of it, will have so gigantic a sum still owing that practically it will be forced to produce more than it does today.' What will the end be? and the answer to that question is 'Pledging of our land, enslavement of our labor-strength. - Hitler

That is what debt is. You as a citizen of the USA represent the means by which the government hopes to repay the debt they take out. Every $1 of debt is future earnings reduced for each citizen.