Remember When Trump Wanted a Military Show At His Inaugural Parade and They Told Him No?
Well, he’s gonna get a military parade like every other despot has, by gawd.
The fake New York Times has a story this morning saying the Trump will ask for a $54 billion increase in military spending. And who will pay for it?
A day before delivering a high-stakes address on Tuesday to a joint session of Congress, Mr. Trump will demand a budget with tens of billions of dollars in reductions to the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department, according to four senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the plan. Social safety net programs, aside from the big entitlement programs for retirees, would also be hit hard.
The EPA, State Department, and little hungry crippled children.
I have a visual image of Kushner and Bannon playing with little army guys with tanks, bombers, and trucks on the coffee table, with Daddy promising to get them life-sized ones.
WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to previews of an outline of the Trump Administration’s proposed Fiscal Year 2018 budget:
“The budget proposals released by the Trump Administration today double-down on the rejection of math, economics, and common sense that made Republican budgets unrealistic and ill-conceived over the last several years. If President Trump plans to come before Congress tomorrow evening to outline severe cuts to investments in job growth, infrastructure, and education that help Americans get ahead, he should know that he will be met with strong opposition from Democrats. As has been shown over and over again the past few years, Republicans cannot complete the appropriations process on their own under sequestration’s unrealistic targets. President Trump will soon learn that funding federal agencies is much easier with bipartisan cooperation.
“To meet our challenges, not add to them, we must provide all agencies with the necessary resources to ensure we are employing the most effective and efficient tools to keep our country safe. This Administration should also learn the lessons of the past and invest in foreign aid, an investment that Republican and military leaders, from former President George W. Bush to former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, agree is critical to our national security.
“The American people want smart budgets that promote long-term fiscal sustainability and economic opportunity for all, not another example of the bluster and gross mismanagement that this Administration has already made its hallmark.”
1Women combat Vets, Trump and his “little feet!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NX_cUMw2gI
2I did not white supremacists and Jews could get along.
3With the new increase in the Pentagon’s budget the US will soon have by far the largest military in the world. Instead of what we have now, which is by far the largest military in the world.
4Point well taken, Rick. How much will ever be enough? Overkill?
5Epo, is there a word missing? Is it “know”?
Go, Steny! One Congressman I don’t mind voting for over and over.
6Right Rick…we need to spend even more to bloat the military to over 10x what we need to defend us against no one!
7The Dems talk too much. They explain too much. The go all rational.
It isn’t working. Based on how voters have been acting, this is the time for simplicity and slogans and memes and sound-bites.
This new budget is the beginning of a War Against the Middle Class. That’s all Dems need to say and they need to say it often and loudly. If the Repubs can get traction with a phony War On Christmas, why on earth can’t the Dems manage to get on message about real threats?
8The poor white trash that elected Trump will be the first to suffer when Repuignants (sic) slash the Social safety net programs!
Does that say poetic justice?
I oppose this move because Democrats will also be hurt.
9^^^^^^^ THIS! A million upvotes for LynnN!
(Thanks, Steny. But you’re not talking to a Harvard economic conference. Think: average Joe and Jane. Those are the people you need on your side. And, yes, they vote, too.)
10SO Trump wants his own Benghazi?
11Remember what happened the last time Republicans refused to give money to the State Department?
And he’s building up the military for one reason: President Chickenhawk Wants A War.
It’s happened before, but how many people, American and otherwise, will be killed on the altar of this glassbowl’s ego? Stand by to find out!
12When you’re plagued by the Devil even the deep, blue sea starts to look good.
13Frederick, that’s an outstanding video. Thanks for linking to it. I can’t imagine how anyone could be more of a Blue Falcon than the Orange Whore.
14God I hate that slime ball.
This is not an endorsement of Trump, but if you think there’s no war in the future if we’re sufficiently diplomatic, you’re living in just as much a fantasy as Trump.
Think about ancient history, warfare, human nature.
Suppose North Korea or Pakistan or Russia fitted out tramp freighters with an ICBM with an EMP warhead, one on each coast, one for Japan, one for Europe.
THEN, you’d need a big military.
15May trump, kushner, Bannon and minions be damned for all eternity for their evil against those who are most helpless and at risk. But first may lose everything they cherish. That is money and position, may they spend the remainder of their sorry lives mired in the slime of their own making!
16Ormond Otvos: Oh! You mean like the big military we had on Dec. 6, 1941? Y’know, the day before we were attacked? We didn’t have one then, but the next day we made one.
If the NEED arises we’ll make a big military just like before. The problem with having a big military is some egotistical asshole with inadequacy issues will come along just itching to use it. We’ve got just such a person in the White House right now.
Beware.
17Shucks! How obvious can an idiot get! Cuts across the board for everything non-military? Well, one of the first places you can look to see how bad that would be is in the State Department budget under the heading of off-shore security such as consulates – like in Benghazi.
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