Commentary With $30 trillion of debt—which has grown by $5 trillion in just the last two years, with another $2 trillion of red ink expected to get spilled this year—you might have expected Congress at least to pretend it will temper its reckless spending proclivities. But you would be sadly mistaken. Congress has just finalized a $1.5 trillion spending bill that required 2,741 pages of legislative text. The Heritage Foundation calculates it would take the average congressman over 300 hours to read this bill with all its legal gobbledygook. So, it’s a reasonable certainty that members of Congress have no idea what they voted for. Republicans wanted more defense spending on top of the near $800 billion we already give each year to the Pentagon. The United States spends more on defense than China, Russia, India, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan combined. But that isn’t evidenced enough to protect our …