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Great Nations Aren’t Destroyed By Enemies. They’re Destroyed By Debt...

GREAT MONEY DISASTER
"My child and My children, pray a constant vigilance of prayer. Keep this going throughout the United States and all of the nations of the world, for there is little time left. Soon, in the plans of the Eternal Father, He shall set forth and allow to come upon mankind, a great money disaster. In this way it will prove to you that the disaster back in the 1920's, My children, was as nothing compared to what will happen now. I talk of a great depression coming upon mankind." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

GATHER YOUR GRACES
"You cannot accept two masters. One you will love, and the other you will learn to hate. And remember, My children, where your treasures are, your heart will always lie. And better that you gather your treasures in a place where there is neither rusting, nor attacks by moths, and robbers cannot take them from you. Store your treasures in Heaven, My children. Gather your graces. You must ransom your soul and the souls of your children, your households. Do not wait expecting to be repatriated at the last moment, My children. Many are coming across the veil unprepared, and, sadly, they cannot be accepted into the Kingdom." - Jesus, August 5, 1977

The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York. Read more

Spectator.org reported on May 12, 2026:

By Douglas Carswell

Imagine your family spent more this year than you earned. Uncomfortable, but manageable. Now imagine your family had spent more than it earned every single year since 2001. By now, you would be destitute.

That is what the federal government has been doing.

For the past 25 years — ever since Bill Clinton left the White House — Washington has spent more than it has taken in. Every single year. The national debt now stands at $39 trillion.

In 2001, the United States owed less than $6 trillion. Today, we owe nearly $39 trillion. The federal debt has grown by $33 trillion in just 25 years.

Here is the worrying part. In the entire 212 years from George Washington’s first inauguration through Bill Clinton’s last day in office — through the Civil War, the Great Depression, two World Wars, and the Cold War — the United States accumulated $5.8 trillion in debt. In the 25 years since, we have added $33 trillion more. More than four-fifths of the total debt the country carries today has been borrowed in the past quarter-century.

Our brains are not wired to grasp numbers this large. So consider it another way.

A million seconds ago was about 11 days ago — late April. A billion seconds ago was 32 years ago, in 1994, when the World Wide Web was just getting started. A trillion seconds ago was about 32,000 years ago. Woolly mammoths still roamed Europe. Farming had not yet been invented. No one, so far as we know, had yet reached North America.

That is what a trillion looks like. And the United States owes almost 40 of them.

The pace is accelerating. Of that $39 trillion, $2.7 trillion was added in the past year alone. Ten trillion — more than 27 percent of every dollar America has ever borrowed — has been piled on in just the past five years. The federal government now adds roughly $8 billion in new debt every single day.

When the cost of servicing old debts crowds out the essential investments that sustain national strength … decline becomes almost inevitable.

Great nations are rarely destroyed by external enemies. They are more often destroyed by debt. The historian Niall Ferguson has warned that when the cost of servicing old debts crowds out the essential investments that sustain national strength — especially defense — decline becomes almost inevitable.

History is littered with cautionary tales. Habsburg Spain. Bourbon France. The Ottoman Empire. Each was once the greatest power on earth. Each was overstretched by debt.

Ferguson identifies a critical threshold — what some now call the Ferguson limit — beyond which a great power cannot long survive: the moment a nation spends more on debt interest than on defense. At that point, fiscal arithmetic begins to dismantle geopolitical power. The United States is now flirting with that threshold.

A few months ago, I was at the Ole Miss game in Oxford when a B-2 stealth bomber flew over the stadium. The crowd went wild. It was one of the most thrilling sights I have ever seen — a symbol of American strength, the kind of demonstration of raw power that not only keeps the United States secure but keeps adversaries across the globe in line. Each B-2 costs over $2 billion to build. Keeping one in the air costs about $150,000 an hour. There are only 21 of them.

The risk is that one day the United States — like Habsburg Spain — will simply not be able to afford the things that make us strong. And it isn’t just defense. Medicaid. Social Security. Federal pensions. Every one of them depends on the United States being able to roll its debt at manageable rates.

Cutting spending alone will not be enough. We also need growth — and an AI-driven productivity boom looks increasingly likely to deliver it. Spending restraint and growth, working together, could narrow the deficit over a decade. Eventually, the debt itself could begin to be paid down.

This — not the midterms, not the next round of congressional redistricting — is what really matters. It will decide whether our children’s children live better lives than we do, or whether we follow Europe down the path of higher taxes, rising costs, and demographic decay.

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"The judgment of your God is not akin to the judgment of man. The Eternal Father will only judge by the heart. Your rank, your accumulation of worldly goods does not set you up before another. Many have sold their souls within the holy House of God. Better that you strip yourself and remove all worldly interests now while you have the time to make amends to your God, for many mitres will fall into hell." - St. Thomas Aquinas, August 21, 1972

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