The Numbers Do Not Care About Your Politics

Look at the fiscal year 2025 numbers. Just look at them. $5.2 trillion in revenue. $7.01 trillion in spending. A $1.8 trillion deficit.

It is not complicated. It is math. If a family did this, they would be living in a car. But because it is the federal government, we call it “monetary policy” and move on.

We are not talking about a bad year. This is the new normal. The national debt is sitting at $39 trillion. Every single American, from newborns to retirees, owes $117,000.

The real story is not that we are broke. The real story is what the money is being spent on.

Interest payments. That is the kicker. For the first time ever, the government spent more on servicing the debt than on the entire military. Over $1.2 trillion just to keep the lights on for the bankers.

The Pentagon got $869 billion. So, the biggest employer in the world is now officially a debt collector for the wealthy.

Think about that. One out of every five dollars the government spends goes to interest. It does not build a road. It does not teach a kid. It just services a liability created by the last generation of politicians.

And the interest rates are not going down. The treadmill is speeding up. New debt is issued at higher rates to pay off old…