George Washington: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world…" Thomas Jefferson: "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none." John Quincy Adams: "America… goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all."

We're all familiar with the saying "By their fruits, ye shall know them." Well, we are several centuries away from America's Founders, and our nation has ignored their wise advice. The fruits of ignoring them are rotten to the core.

We now stand at the edge of total bankruptcy, with a Trump Administration and @DOGE feverishly trying to salvage the damage that has been done. All because America refused to mind its own business. The 100 year-old fixation of entrenching ourselves in the affairs of other nations left the door wide open for internal rot to take hold.

When your focus is outward, the inward falls to pieces. Bridges collapse, planes get into accidents, cities are destroyed, and morality descends into the sewer. Waste and fraud become the way of life. "Public servants" help themselves to the public's money.

DOGE is exposing the waste and fraud, but they haven't even scratched the surface. The biggest (and most indebted) government in the history of the world cannot be exposed in just a couple of weeks. I'm sure even DOGE cannot fathom what is still waiting for them.

America has approximately 1,000 military bases sprawled all over the planet. That's the extreme that we have reached.

Our president is expected to have an opinion on the goings-on of every nation. Why? He's the President of The United States, elected by the American people. He's not "The President of The World." Yet, a decent number of Americans will rabidly reply "Oh yes he is the President of The World!"

So the problem is not simply located in the halls of government alone. Much of the public has bought in.

Why would we even burden President Trump with such an impossible task? Does he not have the same number of ticks of the clock that the rest of us have? Is the United States not a big enough problem for The President of The United States? Do we not have enough to put on his plate?