A Distraction Paid for with Dollars We Don’t Have It’s 2026. America is more than $40 trillion in debt. Cities are buckling under crime and collapsing infrastructure. Middle-class savings are vanishing beneath the weight of inflation. Banks are consolidating—or failing outright. And amid this chaos, Washington is patting itself on the back for a $93 billion moonshot called Artemis. Yes, NASA is sending a crew of astronauts back to the moon—this time with the PR sheen of gender diversity and international cooperation. They call it "progress." But let’s be blunt: Artemis is a last-ditch political spectacle—a gold-plated distraction financed by printed money and future taxation. In the 1960s, the U.S. could at least claim to be solvent. Today’s Artemis program…
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