So let’s add this up. Not politically. Mathematically.
$1.5 trillion for defense. A secret command center with no price tag. A ballroom funded by the same defense contractors cashing the defense checks. An entire generation of experienced military leadership replaced by people who know how to applaud on cue.
And on the other side of that ledger?
Daycare — gone. Your state’s problem now.
Medicaid — being gutted. Your state’s problem now.
Medicare — on the table. Your state’s problem now.
Your state, by the way, is already broke. But details.
The people making these decisions will never need daycare. They have people for that. They will never worry about Medicare. They have coverage you’ll never see. Their kids aren’t going to be sent to whatever comes next after Iran.
But you’ll pay for the bunker. You’ll pay for the bombs. You’ll pay for the generals who got replaced by yes-men to then have to be replaced again when the yes-men prove they don’t actually know how to fight a war.
You’ll pay for all of it. You always do.
And when it goes sideways — and history suggests it will — the same people who built this house of cards will stand in front of a camera and explain why it’s somebody else’s fault. The generals who got fired. The previous administration. The media. The lawsuit that made the secret unsecret.
Anybody but the man under the ballroom.
Here’s what nobody’s saying out loud: this isn’t about protecting America. A country that can’t afford to feed its grandmothers or mind its children isn’t being protected. It’s being harvested.
So let’s add this up. Not politically. Mathematically.
