All of us should consider the blessings that our current president bestows upon us. For example, the blessing of “spending.”

We are currently being given the opportunity to consider the concept of spending from so many perspectives it can surely be considered a golden age for this topic.

For example, we stopped spending money on USAID, resulting in, at the very least, “hundreds of thousands of deaths” internationally, according to the Center for Global Development, the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the Maryland School of Medicine, and many more sources. This is one of the monumental changes we’ve accomplished as a nation under our current president. We went from spending serious money keeping people alive around the globe to allowing them to perish. We did that. No receipts. No chance to undo it. And the perishing continues, even if this ongoing death count is no longer covered in the news. We have created this historic money-saving strategy. This now helps define us in the eyes of the world, and our president has blessed us with the opportunity to reflect on how we feel about being viewed as selectively frugal mass murderers.

Here at home, we’ve cut $187 billion from our own Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which, according to multiple news sources, impacts 40 million Americans, including one-in-five children. And our own USDA cut $500 million from the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TAFAP). This is expected to increase food insecurity for roughly four million of our fellow Americans, which could include as many as a million children, according to an article from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Additionally, we’re also looking to slash up to $900 billion from Medicaid, which will potentially strip 17 million Americans of health coverage. It is reported that 40 percent of Medicaid recipients are also on SNAP, so that is a double savings from them, potentially forcing many Americans to choose between food and health.

We sure have been blessed with a lot to think about.

So where are all these savings going? Are we paying down our trillions of dollars in budget deficit? Actually, we are adding to that. But we have given tax cuts to the very richest Americans. And we are planning to build a White House ballroom. And we recently started financing a war with Iran, spending an estimated $25 to $30 billion so far, according to multiple news sources including The New York Times, and contributing to somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 deaths, depending on which source we go by. Oh, and we bought the Defense Department millions of dollars’ worth of Alaska king crabs and steaks.

As all of this continues to evolve, we have the opportunity to take some time and reflect on our accomplishments and goals and the shifting reality of America here and abroad. Our current president has blessed us with the opportunity to think about who we are becoming and how we can live every day for the rest of our lives knowing we are part of all of this. How we participate in this new American golden age is something we cannot escape. How we carry that truth will say everything about who we truly are.