So, you think America is in a world of trouble?  We’re not even talking, let alone thinking about the greatest threat to our way of life.

LinkedIn on Thursday, August 27, 2026

 $40 trillion and counting?!  Costing us $1 trillion per year, approximately $3000 per person, $12,000 per family of four – just to pay the interest on our national debt.

Forget about Donald Trump and the likes of Stephen Miller.  These people are fast on their way to being barely memorable footnotes in the history of our country.  If anything ever takes America down, it will the gross financial irresponsibility with which we’ve managed our national debt.

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National Insecurity, the Financial Kind

LinkedIn on Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Those of us who follow the news are well aware that President Trump has made us less safe. He’s done so primarily by gross mis-deployment of our military assets, unnecessary depletion of ordinance and by trashing relationships with our allies, by virtue of his generally incompetent leadership and by lying so frequently that, for all practical purposes, you can’t believe anything he says. To our friends and enemies alike around the world, the United States is no longer invincible.

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