Reading a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, one can’t help but be struck by the complete detachment from fiscal reality of leading Democratic politicians. Looking objectively at the financial indicators, particularly the nearly $37 trillion dollar debt burden the U.S. is carrying, and then to hear Democrat politicians demand that President Trump spend money that Congress wants him to spend, an eating disorder may be an apt metaphor, with President Trump delivering the Ozempic.
Leading Democrat eminence grise, Senator Richard (“Danang Dick”) Blumenthal is actually quoted in the Journal piece, saying, “We should absolutely insist on safeguards to ensure that funds are spent when they are appropriated,” when passing spending legislation. Get that? “Safeguards” to ensure money we don’t have is spent. Not safeguards to ensure that money Congress wants spent is actually currently available and not simply printed or borrowed, thus becoming a still-greater debt burden on our progeny. No, he wants to make sure the Chief Executive of the United States doesn’t run the country like a competent business executive or a responsible father of a family, trying to ensure that they don’t lose the house and have food for the table. He wants “safeguards” to ensure the government blows through fiat currency to fund Congress’s pet projects.
These craven Congress-creatures are like methamphetamine addicts, to use another metaphor, who are desperately crawling around on the floor looking for anything resembling crystal meth that they can stick in a pipe and smoke - a harrowing description offered by Hunter Biden to describe his own drug addiction.
Elon Musk, probably the most successful business executive in the history of the human race, tried to convey these sentiments in a cabinet meeting recently. He told the assemblage, “We simply cannot sustain a country on $2 trillion deficits… We spend a lot on the Defense Department, but we're spending like $1 trillion on interest. If this continues, the country will go, become de facto bankrupt. It's not an optional thing. It is a central thing that's the reason I'm here. And taking a lot of flack, and getting a lot of death threats, by the way," he added. "But if we don't do this, America will go bankrupt. That's why it has to be done."
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Indeed, the death threats are very real and very serious. Musk expanded on the danger his life is in during an interview with Joe Rogan recently, in which he noted that constant ridiculous comparisons made of him to Adolf Hitler by prominent “progressive” talking heads, from politicians to social media “influencers,” cannot but lead to some individuals on the phycological bubble to conclude that they would be justified in taking a shot at him.
In comes Dr. Trump, who realizes that this patient is facing deadly organ system failure if he doesn’t get his weight down quick. So he brings in a specialist, Dr. Musk, and together they get to work, putting the patient on the fiscal equivalent of a semaglutide.
But here’s the thing: Any responsible weight loss program incorporating Ozempic or one of its weight-loss equivalents must include an entire lifestyle change. That means more responsible eating habits and a vigorous exercise regimen. It also must last a long time.
Similarly, the measures that must be taken to restore America to fiscal sanity have to endure beyond the four-year tenure of one president. Dr. Trump is embarking on a multipronged approach, it seems, to bring America back into fiscal balance.
First, of course, is the elimination of ludicrous expenditures by the federal government on things like millions going toward doing transgender surgeries on mice and paying $50 million to provide condoms to Gazans. Entire departments (looking at you, Department of Education) that do nothing but create layers of unnecessary bureaucracy and do nothing to raise the proficiency levels of American students, are on the chopping block.
Then there are Dr. Trump’s steps to open up America’s energy reserves, which will go a long way to fueling prosperity, because energy resources are the life blood of the modern economy.
His imposition of tariffs on countries which have had their own tariffs in place for decades to hinder the importation of American exports onto their shores, is another step toward rebuilding America’s industrial base and, ultimately, toward increasing the tax base to lower the national debt and deficits.
All these steps in America’s fiscal weight-loss program are essential. But once Trump is out of office, the same old compulsions by politicians, particularly in Congress, to devour yet more U.S. taxpayers’ dollars will re-emerge, just as bad eating habits tend to recur for those struggling with weight loss. The program to eliminate America’s national debt and restore us to economic health, will take a decade or more. That means that another president with the same sort of vision and aggressiveness as Dr. Trump will be required.
It certainly seems that J.D. Vance possesses the qualities to take on the role of Physician-in-Chief come 2028. He is quick on his feet, obviously highly intelligent, and one who hasn’t been afraid to call out the insanity of American taxpayers having to foot the bill for the endless bloodbath in Ukraine. I suspect that President Trump sees Vance as his natural heir apparent and is grooming him for the role, allowing him to be more visible and active in policymaking than most presidents permit their vice presidents to be.
American potential to grow in healthy ways is boundless, if we can get out from under the weight of debt that will surely kill us otherwise. No great world powers are forever. But if we are able to restore America to sound fiscal health, America still possesses the foundational principles, and its people the genius, to realize enormous achievements for all of mankind.
William F. Marshall has been an intelligence analyst and investigator in the government, private, and non-profit sectors for 38 years. He is a senior investigator for Judicial Watch, Inc., and has been a contributor to Townhall, American Thinker, Epoch Times, The Federalist, American Greatness, and other publications. His work has been featured on CBS News 48 Hours and NBC News Dateline. (The views expressed are the author’s alone, and not necessarily those of Judicial Watch.)
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