Trump's Budget Proposal

[_Kevin Graham]

Trump's latest budget is one of his cruelest proposals yet.

It would:

1) Cut Medicaid by $1.5 trillion over the next decade. Trump's budget would end Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, preventing millions of Americans from accessing health care.

2) Slash Medicare by $845 billion over the next decade, which would threaten the health of seniors.

3) Makes $25 billion in cuts to Social Security over 10 years, including cuts to disability insurance.

4) Reduce the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by more than 30 percent, weakening oversight of polluters and endangering the health and safety of the American people.

5) Create trillion dollar deficits for the next 4 years, jeopardizing long-term investments in the things Americans really need.

Meanwhile, Trump and his enablers plan to increase the defense budget, which will juice lucrative defense contracts, but do little for the American people.

This administration's unbridled cruelty and contempt for the wellbeing of the American people never ceases to amaze me. We continue to fight against the damage they are doing to America.

[_moksha]

Why do Republicans insist on waging class warfare on America's poorest citizens?

[_Res Ipsa]

Why do Republicans insist on waging class warfare on America's poorest citizens?

Don’t forget: it’s not class warfare to give huge tax breaks to the rich and cut the safety net for the poor. It’s only class warfare to use the term “class warfare.”

I’m sure Tucker Carlson could explain it better.

[_ajax18]

I pretty much liked all of that with exception of the deficit.

If someone of my intelligence and health limitations can survive without welfare everyone else can as well.

[_EAllusion]

It bears mentioning that Trump’s strong support of SS, Medicare, and Medicade was arguably thee main thing that made voters think of him as “moderate” and probably played some role in his coalition of support.

That this was clearly lies might mean something to some voters. *shrugs*

[_Kevin Graham]

It bears mentioning that Trump’s strong support of SS, Medicare, and Medicade was arguably thee main thing that made voters think of him as “moderate” and probably played some role in his coalition of support.

That this was clearly lies might mean something to some voters. *shrugs*

But none of this matters. Unless the Democrats find a perfect candidate with policies that are super popular, this will be a slam dunk for Trump in 2020. See, its all about what the Democrats do or don't do. Nothing Trump does or doesn't do doesn't really matter.

[Guest]

I pretty much liked all of that with exception of the deficit.

If someone of my intelligence and health limitations can survive without welfare everyone else can as well.

What intelligence and what health limitations? You have, so far, in your posting history, demonstrated little intelligence and little awareness or understanding of the reality and seriousness of the most important issues that confront us. What you have demonstrated, in spades and often unabashedly and, apparently even proudly so, at times, is your own bigotry and utter contempt for people less well off than yourself--especially those who are non-white.

Trump is gutting programs that actually help people and the environment in favor of unnecessary and ill-advised increases in U.S. military spending, which already exceeds that of the next dozen or so nations combined. The only real beneficiaries of Trump's policies are ultra rich multi-billionaires, especially in the fossil fuels and arms manufacturing industries that donate heavily to ultra conservative and anti-democratic causes and politicians who care for nothing except augmenting their own power and already extreme wealth that is so great they hardly know what to do with it all.

[_Gunnar]

Why do Republicans insist on waging class warfare on America's poorest citizens?

Good question. They often accuse their opponents of promoting class warfare. The truth is that they are not the slightest bit opposed to class warfare, as long as the extremely wealthy are winning it. What they are really opposed to is exposing the fact that class warfare against the poor has long been viciously pursued and won by much of the wealthy billionaire class with virtually no effective opposition.

[_MeDotOrg]

Why do Republicans insist on waging class warfare on America's poorest citizens?

Good question. They often accuse their opponents of promoting class warfare. The truth is that they are not the slightest bit opposed to class warfare, as long as the extremely wealthy are winning it. What they are really opposed to is exposing the fact that class warfare against the poor has long been viciously pursued and won by much of the wealthy billionaire class with virtually no effective opposition.

Take it from that radical socialist Warren Buffett:

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

[_ajax18]

What intelligence and what health limitations?

You think I'm an idiot right? I'll admit that I have mental and health challenges. And yet, I've managed to earn a living for myself and my family in spite of that. I'm in pain a lot, but I've never missed a day of work in 10 years.