America is Broke, and the World’s Golddiggers aren’t Happy
Life is a series of ups and downs, but if you were ever well off financially and then lost it all, you quickly learn the definition of true friendship. The barnacles, those hangers-on who are always there for a free drink, a free steak or an introduction to someone important, are the first to jump ship. You’ll get excuses until they ghost you outright, but once they know you have nothing left to offer, they’re out looking for the next ear of corn they can butter up.
In the end, you’ll find your circle of friends has shrunk considerably, but at least you know that whoever is left is genuine. Close friends will be small in number, and it will stay that way for the rest of your life, even when the barnacles come back during your next resurgence.
That’s exactly where America finds itself.
Largely a fiscal disaster of its own making, Uncle Sam was the proverbial rich guy with an open wallet, buying drinks and expensive dinners for anyone who could tell a good joke and light up his cigars, but all the while they laughed at him behind his back.
As DOGE has exposed, a large portion of U.S spending had no benefit to the country. For example, in many of the USAID expenditures DOGE listed on its website, some foreign entity benefitted. Someone got paid $8,000,000 to improve the safety and well-being of LGBTQI+ in Uganda. We paid $15,000,000 to promote more peaceful communities in Pakistan. The list goes on for pages and pages.
So far, the tally of estimated savings is $115 billion and rising every day. Yet, it’s important to remember as our tax dollars are clawed back, whether it’s through the efforts of DOGE, tariffs or demands that other countries spend more of their own money on social programs, there are losers on the other side of the ledger, both foreign and domestic, and they’re not happy.
With Friends Like This…
Whether it’s useless government bureaucrats or foreign leaders, those who stand to get kicked off America’s gravy train are really pissed off, and they’re not taking it lying down.
They want that money.
Inside America, the number of lawsuits filed against the administration is staggering. Twenty attorneys general, led by woke leftist lunatic Leticia James, filed lawsuits on behalf of thousands of terminated probationary federal employees, claiming that mass firings violate federal law.
An activist leftist judge in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal employees because they weren’t given proper notice and the states weren’t prepared to deal with so many newly unemployed bureaucrats.
Out of work bureaucrats and woke leftists are so enraged over the effort to cut government waste and fraud, they’re burning Tesla’s, threatening Elon, and “swatting” prominent pro-Trump advocates who favor leaner, less corrupt government.
Foreign leaders, who have benefitted from America’s $1.2 trillion annual trade deficit, clearly understand the ramification of Trump’s tariffs. The playing field will be leveled in trade, and they will probably have to cut back on the generous social welfare programs they often virtue signal about.
A career bean counter, Mark Carney, who is the new Prime Minister of Canada, recently said, “Donald Trump, as we know, has put unjustified tariffs on what we build, on what we sell, on how we make a living. He’s attacking Canadian workers, families and businesses. We cannot let him succeed. And we won’t.” Canada runs a $54 billion trade surplus with the U.S.
Canadian MP Charlie Angus, who is a member of the country’s liberal New Democratic Party, said Trump committed an “act of war” by calling for Canada to become the 51st state.
The French Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou accused Trump of “a destruction of international order.” France runs a $15.1 billion trade surplus with the U.S.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to “… defend free trade as the basis of our prosperity, together with other partners.” Germany runs a $76 billion trade surplus with the U.S.
Beware America
Now that the wallet is empty and the good times are coming to an end, the people who are losing their free lunch have their knives out. It will be ugly, but for the first time in a long time, America is going to find out who its real friends are. Leaders like Javier Milei from Argentina and Vicktor Orban of Hungary are two friends whose policies and beliefs align with Donald Trump’s, and they both have shown their loyalty to America.
Here is a final prediction. Mexico might actually prove to be far more of a friend and ally than hostile Canada.
