There are many reasons that the United States of America has allowed itself to be consumed by a $38 trillion national debt that’s now growing exponentially on a daily basis.  The good news is that sometimes a scandal emerges from out of nowhere to become a catalyst for change.

To put a fine point on our spending emergency, it took our great country 211 years to reach a $5 trillion debt, but we’ve managed to accumulate a mind-blowing $33 trillion in additional debt in just the past 25 years. Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, federal spending has ballooned from an already whopping $4.4 trillion annually to a now unfathomable $7 trillion.

This existential financial crisis — and top national security threat — has everything to do with ever-expanding entitlements like Social Security and Medicare that are speeding toward insolvency, and other grossly unchecked social safety net programs in dire need of common-sense reform, particularly in the wake of unprecedented COVID-19 era waste, fraud, and abuse.  Unfortunately, this sinful mindset of carelessness and excess isn’t unique to the federal level. (RELATED: Tim Walz Pivots To Attacking White Men When Asked If Somalis Will Be Held Accountable For Fraud)

Look no further than the infuriating multi-year fraud investigations and prosecutions that are enveloping the state of Minnesota and the administration of radical left-wing Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison.  It’s alleged and methodically proven that more than a billion dollars in taxpayer money was stolen by........

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