Posted by Tina
As predicted the Presidents budget for 2018 was met with howls and screams from the left because of cuts to sacred cows like NPR and the arts but there were a few surprises in the headlines:
Libertarian Chris Edwards reporting for CNN, “Trump’s budget cuts are fair and necessary”
Donovan Slack and Gregory Korte, USA TODAY, “Trump’s first budget slashes education, health spending to make way for military buildup”
Trump proposes a $54 billion increase in defense (and veteran) spending and $54 billion in cuts to duplicate programs and programs better administered by the states. The cuts come in the areas of the arts, education, the environment, foreign aid, and health and human services.
Before everyone goes off half cocked it should be noted that cuts to programs represent a meager 1% of discretionary spending. Most of middle America has been on an extended lean budget for many years. It won’t hurt our government one bit to become more cost conscious, more efficient, and more creative in their approach to spending effectively. In fact it could be good for all Americans to begin to rethink how we handle local issues and problems. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to spend money to send money to DC and then spend even more to dole it out to the states. That’s wasteful and represents money the states and local governments could use to better use affecting these areas of concern.
It would be wise to remember too that this is a proposal, a starting place, in the budget negotiations. The proposal will allow our lawmakers, those who will actually write the budget, to gain a more specific understanding of the President’s intentions and priorities for the first year of his presidency. It will give Trump, a world class negotiator, plenty of room to force lawmakers to be creative and to negotiate in good faith.
I like it. He prioritizes according to Constitutional edicts by putting the safety of our citizens first. He demands a more responsible government when it comes to the fiduciary responsibility they have to the people. We’ll see where we go from here.
The Presidents budget proposal, America First, A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again is posted on the White House web site.
Let us dig into the budget
Why were the cuts necessary and spending increased as well?
The wall shall we start there?
Poor Tina. I admire you’re efforts. But you’re own party has declared it unworkable. I said it before, you need to be a different party.
Poor Tina. I admire you’re efforts. But your own party has declared it unworkable. I said it before, you need to be a different party.
Libby
My guess is she will go down with the ship
Oooppps.
Such arrogance over a proposal.
Bids are already coming in for the wall. It will be built as promised.
Martin Fieldstein explains one way in which Mexico would pay for the wall:
No need for sympathy, Tina is doing just fine.
Ah, me …
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/us/article/Stockman-s-filings-don-t-explain-his-income-5006941.php?t=e7e7844f8f4d372650
Definitely, you need to make yourselves another party. This one is positively irredeemable.
Trump is on track to spend $1 billion in 4 years housing his wife in NYC and vacationing in Mar-a-Lago virtually every week.
Here are the actual WH budgets yet there is no law or cap
Travel = 55 million
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2017-APP/html/BUDGET-2017-APP-1-24.htm
His sons opted in for SS protection at our expense as they travel the world doing Trump Business
Bottom Line Trump is abusing Taxpayers while telling them the country has no money for the services we pay taxes for.
Sooner or later you are going to have to look at Reality. You own this and There is no way this can continue.
Merkle’s look at Trump when he spreads the fake news says it all
He is a Big Dufus Con Man.
I gave the man a chance, he is a con man and you should back out before you have to eat crow
This is Catastrophic and can not sustain itself. He is also putting us in danger.
If the increase in military spending went directly into the pockets of our troops then I’d hell yeah! But, it won’t. It will go to military contractors. If you want to put a smile on a grunt’s face you give ’em a big fat check every month.
Pete, our military people already get a pretty sizeable paycheck. But, I agree with you about spending the taxpayers money in the right places. I hope stricter oversight results in better bang for the buck. If Trump can’t do it, who’s left? It sure wouldn’t have been Hillary. Let’s wish him luck.