Trump condemned for budget cutting welfare while boosting spending for border wall and military: ‘This is for the billionaire class’

Trump has been accused of proposing a budget for the “military-industrial complex and the billionaire class”, after the White House released details of a plan that would cut spending on welfare and education while boosting money for the military and a border wall.

The $4.7 trillion (£3.5 trillion) budget proposal, which is all but certain to be rejected by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and once again put the president on a collision course with Congress over his demand for a border fence, called for an overhaul of Medicare, Medicaid, and other expensive social programmes. Indeed, other than the department of defense, all government departments would see their budgets trimmed by 5 percent.

Meanwhile, the proposal called for spending on the military to be increased by more than 4 percent to $750bn and demanded $8.6bn to build a wall on the border with Mexico.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-budget-cuts-welfare-border-wall-military-spending-bernie-sanders-a8818571.html


How about cutting the benefits for those in Congress. After 2 terms you get lifetime benefits and a pension. Most people have to work 30 years to get that!

U.S. BUDGET DEFICIT REACHES HIGHER LEVEL UNDER TRUMP THAN AT ANY POINT IN OBAMA'S SECOND TERM

"The U.S. budget deficit reached its highest level in six years, higher than any point in President Barack Obama’s second term, the Trump administration announced Monday.

Increased spending in 2018 bumped the deficit up 17 percent to $779 billion in fiscal year 2018, largely due to an increase in spending and a decrease in corporate tax revenue because of the Republican tax cuts late last year. The deficit is now on track to surpass $1 trillion before 2020".

http://www.newsweek.com/budget-deficit-trump-obama-us-1171204


The government spends 50% more on corporate welfare than on food stamps and housing, but all of Trump's cuts that everybody is so thrilled with are cuts to people without political pull, and none of them are to the most expensive entities in the country - corporations. Not a single cut to the $500 billion subsidies big oil gets - WalMart gets $7.8 billion a year. Then you've got the Advanced Technology Program. It's to help companies venture into new technology. Nice idea, but it's cost $2 billion now, with Fortune 500 companies like Dow, IBM, Xerox and GE getting the lion's share. We'll cut off people on disability, and increase Medicare expenses to Seniors with a smile on our faces, but the corporate leaders must always be allowed to keep their faces deep in the federal trough.

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At this writing, 57% of Americans want someone else besides Trump in 2020. By the end of his term, I look for that percentage to be even higher. By the end of his term, we are projected to be in another recession. That in its self will play a major part in his loss in 2020. And that's not counting all the corruption that we already know about. He has pretty well stacked the deck against himself. What he is about to do to the farmers, one of the biggest groups that helped him get in office, Well, I guess it depends on how many farmers are die-hard Trump supporters. We can expect just about any kind of crazy out of them. But I'me reasonably sure Trump alienated himself from many farmers.

In 2020, a majority want someone new in WH:

http://www.nbcnews.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo1456362051828

I have to say that a POTUS in the global public eye, in my opinion, should carry themselves with more integrity and discernment than other jobs might require. But, in 2016, the public stopped pretending they cared about how a POTUS actually behaves.

I tend to think, in most OTHER jobs, what one produces is more important than what I may think of them as people in general. But I agree with POTUS having a certain 'image' of behavior and intelligence that should come with it.

I think we are more and more a culture of popularity though, rather than substance, and I think we are still not ready to see someone other than affluent white males as 'leaders' of the country. Obama was one of those exceptions to the rule kind of things, I think, BECAUSE of four things, his behavior and intelligence and McCain chose such a nincompoop female to run beside him, and the culture of partisan politics had been disappointed by the 'republican' before him due to the near depression. So, the democrat had a better shot. Similarly, enough people were so upset about a non white male leadership being elected AND reelected, that a rich white male had a better shot than another minority(female). BUt that is MY OPINION.

Other than that, in the last few decades, it is rare for a POTUS to not serve two terms. So, we may wanna strap in for another term, unfortunately.

Friar Tuck and his band of merry men ?
G-day big guy

What a devestating thing to do to children and family's .
So heart wrenching .
Congrats Charles on 10G

What a devestating thing to do to children and family's .
So heart wrenching .
Congrats Charles on 10G

How will you handle the glare?

i wear my sunglasses at night