So even if it never happens, it is the rich’s prescription for the poor … capitulate or die. Even the Russians’ propaganda arm thinks it’s draconian...
People may die sooner under this budget which should be the first question to ask any member of the GOP … where are the actual justifications for “an enormous surge in defense spending” except as paramilitary police force growth because increasing poverty may increase crime.
This is much like the rest of the Trump administration’s delusions, as if making a RWNJ statement of ideology about the willingness of the poor to work was equivalent to the notion of achieving a full-employment economy. Then again Trump subscribes to a trickle-down theory of economics that cannot exist in a real world except scrawled on a napkin.
The budget — which will be released on Tuesday, touching off what will be many months of congressional deliberation — is the administration’s most ambitious “Trumponomics” proposal to date. It proposes to get to 3 percent growth by radically redistributing federal money away from programs for the poor and toward an enormous surge in defense spending and tax cuts.
It proposes cutting $1.7 trillion from anti-poverty programs over the next decade, targeting Medicaid with at least $800 billion in cuts, food stamps with a reported $193 billion in cuts, and disability payments, which Mulvaney says will help get able-bodied people back to work.
The budget director says these cuts reflected the “first time in a long time where an administration has been written a budget through the eyes of the people that are actually paying the taxes. So often in Washington I think we only look at the recipient side.”
Many economists are highly skeptical that such reforms could lead to the 3 percent growth goal, a conclusion which Mulvaney — using one of his boss’s favorite words — described as “sad.” “That assumes a pessimism about America, about the economy, about the people, about its culture, that we just refuse to accept,” he said.
It’s all because we’re in an alternate universe as the Daily Beast notes:
In simpler times, Donald Trump, then a tacky real estate developer and novice Twitter troll, took issue with the Obamas’ behavior with respect to Saudi Arabia.
First, Trump echoed much of the right-wing media in criticizing President Obama for appearing to bow before Saudi King Abdullah at a G-20 summit in London’s Buckingham Palace back in 2009:
If that weren’t enough, Trump took shots at first lady Michelle Obama for opting against wearing a headscarf during the president’s state visit to Saudi Arabia:
Many people are saying it was wonderful that Mrs. Obama refused to wear a scarf in Saudi Arabia, but they were insulted.We have enuf enemies
You can probably guess what happened next. Yes, President Trump not only bowed but appeared to curtsy before Saudi King Salman during his recent trip to Saudi Arabia, while first ladies Melania and Ivanka Trump were praised for forgoing headscarves.
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