$30 Trillion: The Price of a National Hangover

In 1995, while the media hypnotized the public with the O.J. Simpson spectacle and “Toy Story” broke box office records, the U.S. national debt was creeping toward $5 trillion—a number considered outrageous at the time. Fast-forward to 2025 and that figure has metastasized into $36.2 trillion. That’s over $30 trillion dumped into the furnace in three short decades. For what? For the greatest orgy of consumption in human history. THE BIG LIE: BOOM ON BORROWED TIME We weren’t living within our means. We weren’t investing in the future. We were feeding the beast—endless wars, bloated bureaucracies, corporate welfare masquerading as stimulus, and entitlement programs designed not to help, but to pacify. The average American? They were handed a credit card…