Even in a country that was swimming in excess cash, I’d question the “national security” virtues of spending massive amounts of taxpayer money on lab-grown meat for the military. That country, however, just happens to be the United States. I’m sorry to break it to you in case you haven’t been paying attention to the news since, oh, the New Deal was passed, but we have a bit of an issue with spending more than we take in. Like, a lot more. This year, according to the Treasury Department, we surpassed $34 trillion in public debt, and that number is only going to keep getting higher. And we’re pa…