Citizen Free Press, the conservative news aggregator that grabbed the niche from The Drudge Report after the latter went Trump Deranged, is constantly highlighting the National Debt’s explosion. This is legitimate news. Here is an item that appeared today:
“10 years ago today Trump promised to eliminate the national debt.Instead it has doubled to $39 trillion.“
Meanwhile, over the weekend, the Nation Debt was suddenly important to the Axis again, as those who were horrified over the minuscule number of casualties in the Operation Epic Fury were desperately looking for some way to criticize the amazing rescue of the downed pilot in Iran. All of a sudden, the Left was grousing about Trump spending all that money to rescue a single soldier (The Axis has no integrity at all. I hope that’s clear by now) and citing the National Debt.
Ethics Alarms 
I recall how the Axis, when Republicans proposed reducing the rate of spending growth, accused them of wanting to starve children.
Years ago, Gingrich had a great statement along those lines. This is a paraphrase:
“If we had five hundred dollars budgeted to buy a microwave and found one that did everything we needed for three hundred, Democrats would give a press conference lamenting how Republicans slashed two hundred dollars from the microwave budget.”
I’ll never forget what a pastor said many years ago while delivering a sermon about money: “When your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall.”
No words were ever more appropriate for deficit spending at the national level than those.
You make a good point about DOGE – the monies it has saved, even if it’s in the billions of dollars, is still just a pittance when weighed against the overall debt. And we really haven’t even delved into the massive black hole that is the unfunded mandates, which are well beyond $100 trillion.
We obviously can’t afford all of this stuff forever, so riding this bomb – as if imitating Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove – all the way to detonation doesn’t seem like a good idea. It’s a shame no one in Washington wants to divest themselves of the power that the spending gives them.
sigh…
Sorry to monopolize, but one additional thing. It should also be clear by now that the Axis is really big on people getting killed as part of moving their agenda forward. Whether it’s Good or Pretti resisting ICE or soldiers and airmen in the Middle East, death has become a real “means to an end” for the Left. The Marxist ideal of creating martyrs is not just theoretical to them.
You could almost sense this weekend the frustration the Left felt with that rescue. They complained about the money…sure…but it’s almost as though they preferred the pilot be killed or (maybe even better) captured so they could complain about the cost, in U.S blood, of our endeavors in Iran. Imagine their bitter disappointment when all they got to lament was the cost in dollars rather than talking about how Trump was killing soldiers.