Forty Trillion in Debt and They Want More: The Fiscal Con Game Washington Is Running on You

They Need You Distracted, and China Is the Perfect Distraction

Let me be blunt with you, because that is what I do. Every time the political class wants to spend more of your money on something you would never vote for if they asked you directly, they need a villain. Right now, China is playing that role beautifully for them.

But here is the thing about the China threat narrative. When you actually press the hawks on it, when you ask them the simple question of what China would actually gain from military conflict with the United States, they fall apart. China is our biggest trading partner. We are their best customer. You do not go to war with the person buying your product. That is not geopolitics. That is basic economics.

The Taiwan Card Is a Bluff

Then they pull out the Taiwan card, and I want you to understand how hollow this argument actually is.

• The United States does not officially recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation. Full stop.
• If China had a serious military timeline for Taiwan, our current arms depletion from overseas commitments would make right now the perfect window. They have not moved.
• China’s actual historical strategy is absorption through tribute and economic leverage, not Normandy-style invasion
• No politician is going to successfully sell American families on sending their children to fight for a breakaway island province

This is theater. Expensive, deadly, budget-busting theater.

The Real Crime Is the Bill They Are Leaving You

Here is what I want you to focus on while everyone is staring at the China boogeyman. We are forty trillion dollars in debt. Forty trillion. And the proposal on the table is a one point five trillion dollar defense budget for next year. We already outspend the next nine countries combined on military. Nine countries. Combined.

So what is the score card?

• Post-World War Two military conflicts have produced no clear victories and massive costs
• Asymmetric warfare keeps humbling the most expensive military in human history
• The American taxpayer absorbs every loss while defense contractors count their profits
• Inflation, debt, and purchasing power destruction are the real weapons being used against ordinary Americans

The Founders Tried to Warn Us

I am not being dramatic when I say we have completely abandoned the vision the Founders set out. Read the Federalist Papers. They were explicit about the dangers of entangling alliances, runaway government spending, and the arrogance that comes with wealth and power. We built something extraordinary on those ideas, and we are torching it one supplemental spending bill at a time.

We celebrate two hundred and fifty years of American history with fireworks and flags, and then we ignore every single lesson that history is trying to teach us. The mistakes are right there in the record. We just refuse to look.

I have been saying this for years. The fiscal recklessness happening in Washington right now is not a partisan issue. It is a consumer issue, a retirement issue, and a future-of-your-family issue. Pay attention to where the money is actually going, because nobody in the mainstream press is going to tell you.