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A taste of what lies ahead (no pun
intended) from this
excellent series of charts from The Atlantic – which highlights this fine story:
To
afford a beefier military, Donald J. Trump intends to substantially cut a slew of
government departments, like the EPA and DOL.
(I note: Cuts
to the EPA is what most of the GOP and a slew of others have wanted for years (hell
with clean air we need to breath, safe water to drink or even safe food, and cuts
to the DOL which makes GOP & Business anti-Union types gleeful with their
happy feet dance).
Since
the president has promised to maintain spending on entitlements like Social
Security and Medicare, he intends to shift the burden of paying for his defense
program to the government’s smaller agencies, some of which are responsible for
keeping workplaces safe, monitoring air and water quality, and making sure the
government’s bills are paid on time.
Impact: Nearly two-thirds of the cuts come from departments
that constitute only 20 percent of the budget.
His
budget outline would fund some federal departments at the lowest level since
the 1980's, when adjusted for inflation.
On
first glance, Trump’s push to increase military spending might seem reasonable.
After accounting for inflation, his proposal would fund the Department of
Defense at 2016 levels — which, you know, was
only two years ago.
(I note: Ironic that Trump and GOP considered those days as: “Obama
cuts”).
Granted,
the U.S. no longer has hundreds of thousands of troops fighting overseas, as was
the case for most of the last decade. Nor does it have a belligerent rival
superpower to outspend, as it did with the USSR.
Trump
made no secret of his ambition to increase military spending, so perhaps voters
have shown they support a modest increase.
Time
will tell, but it doesn't good and then add to the public, the expense for building his wall, which BTW is the lie of the century.
Continue the article… excellent graphs of what lies ahead (well,
maybe a pun was intended after all).
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