A
government watchdog report recently revealed that the Pentagon spent $6.9
million on lobster
tails during a single month in late 2025. As per Fox news, “The
expenditure was part of a record-breaking $93.4 billion ‘use-it-or-lose-it’
spree in September that included ribeye steaks, king crab, and luxury
furniture.” Naturally, the mainstream media, and critics of the
administration-- but I redundantly repeat myself—are lashing out at the
expenditures. Which is hilarious and hypocritical, as this is just modern
“baseline budgeting,” which has been standard operating procedure for every
government department, federal, state, and local, for many years now.
That
said, I am a huge and long-time proponent of drastically cutting
government spending, largely because most of the money government siphons off
from us it does so needlessly—or even to the detriment of society. Most
often to the detriment of society. The debt is unsustainable and it is just
a matter of time before Atlas Shrugs. In its various iterations and guises,
government spending causes inflation, dependency, and the dissolution of the
family. Much of it is sadly inherently corrupt and used to fund ever more
corruption.
And
yet Democrats are A-okay with all of this. (Some RINOs, too.) It suits their
narrative, advances their agenda, and enhances their control.
However,
there is one budget item of which they are totally aghast, one type of spending
they cannot countenance and which they believe is an egregious affront to
taxpayers. That heinous outlay recently surfaced in the form of treating the
members of our military to a few nice dinners. That is a bridge too damn
far, say Democrats! Providing steak and lobster dinners to our warriors on the
eve of their deployment to the Middle East is utterly beyond the pale! My God,
think of Middle American taxpayers, the mainstream media cries! This is an
outrage!
Their
outrage is an outrage. Whereas I believe the Pentagon should, like any other
department of government, do everything in its power to reasonably contain
costs, the first function of government is to protect its citizens. In fact,
there is a logical case to be made, ala our Founders, that the federal
government should have few other functions.
Democrats
never met a kickback they didn’t like. (Let’s not even discuss the Uniparty’s
love affair with Big Pharma.) “Money laundering” and “corruption” are their
pronouns. Fraud is their raison d’ệtre. Millions of dollars to a “Quality
Learing Center?” No problem. Billions in fraudulent Medicare payments? Meh.
Fake autism centers, home health care companies, and non-emergency medical
transport businesses? Whatever. USAID, NGOs? They love them like Don Lemon
loves a camera. Because they put cash in their pocket.
Preposterous
outlays to fund polyamory advocacy in Latvia? Hundreds of thousands of dollars
to fund the development of an LGBTQ version of Sesame Street in Kenya? Millions
to promote abortion around the world? Yeah, baby! A few tens of thousands of
dollars to study the effect of cocaine on chickens? Granting Dr. Fauci a couple
of million bucks to perform cruel and bizarre experiments on animals? You bet.
Giving
our nearly poverty-stricken troops, the ones who protect us and our liberty, a
small raise and treating them to a sumptuous dinner now and again? “That’s
outrageous!” scream the Democrats and their media sycophants! A dozen or so of
our military members have given the last full measure of devotion in the Iran
War thus far. More than one hundred have been wounded.
Democrats
want to give free healthcare and housing to illegal aliens across the country.
Courtesy of American taxpayers. But they are unwilling to fund the DHS—and are
upset when our troops are well fed.
Screw
them. It is a tragic statement on the mental and spiritual health of this
country that they are still a viable political entity.
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