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Trump's Budget

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6STRINGJOKER

Thursday, May 4, 2017 2:39 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
How badly did Trump just fail the other day?
New Spending Bill boosts funding for Planned Parenthood, Sanctuary Cities, H1B Visas, Obamacare funding and support, and almost everything else he campaigned on. Plus all of the reasonable Republicans who campaigned on the same - except they were serious, not planning to use these subjects as mere bargaining chips.
How are they supposed to get re-elected? What excuse do they have for screwing the voters who elected them?

Well now you're bringing up real issues against Trump. At the end of the day we're going to have to start asking ourselves if our vote even amounts to anything anymore.

THGRRI

Thursday, May 4, 2017 3:08 AM

Why are you guys surprised. You were clearly told again and again, this was going to happen if Trump won.

SHINYGOODGUY

Thursday, May 4, 2017 12:33 PM

I'm not well versed in Budget matters, but I can say this: the politicos better get this done right because 2018 is just around the corner.

It seems that the republican party stands more to lose since they have the majority in both houses. Turbulent times ahead!

SGG

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I have not seen a lot of hubbub about this, but I did hear he had proposed one, or parts of one.

I have not posted this concept, and wanted to provide it for you all to ruminate upon, or comment upon.
What is a reasonable budget, at this point? How can we recover from so much excess from our addiction and bingeing of spending of the past 8-10 years?
We have gone a long time without any reasonable budget, just spending and borrowing ourselves into oblivion. How can any budget overcome the last 10 years of splurging? Any attempt to correct the trends will ignite the borrowing rate, and the onerous debt we have now (which seems like no big deal because the inflation rate and borrowing rate are miniscule) to a whallopping whale when the rate nudges up to very small.

So, my idea was to use the last reasonable budget as a yardmarker, a gauge to compare with, which would be the last budget which could have possibly been balanced. Although many spending priorities defeated this aim, all budgets since this have never even pretended to try.
This is the 2006 Federal Budget, before the Rock The Vote Libtards invaded DC and strived feverishly to wreck the economy and borrow our grandchildren's taxes to fund the snowflake welfare excesses now.
So, all of the Defense, NASA, and useful functions of Federal Government which have starved and whithered since then, should point out the highest funding they have had during the past 10 years, and that would be a good goal to have as their spending.
All of the bloated welfare, entitlements, government waste should be compared to their 2006 levels, and if they want more than that, need to justify it. They created their own inflation of their dollars, so the change in the dollar is not a valid excuse.

I am not sure if percentage of the total budget or dollar amount would be the better comparison. Perhaps both.

I have not checked out how Trump's budget compares yet.

His budget was one of my greatest fears of his reign - has he declared bankruptcy 4 or 5 times?

But some of what I have heard so far seems reassuring.

What say you?

Also, feel free to provide specifics of what amounts Trump has proposed, and comparison to FY 2006.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, May 5, 2017 5:39 AM

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Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
How badly did Trump just fail the other day?
New Spending Bill boosts funding for Planned Parenthood, Sanctuary Cities, H1B Visas, Obamacare funding and support, and almost everything else he campaigned on. Plus all of the reasonable Republicans who campaigned on the same - except they were serious, not planning to use these subjects as mere bargaining chips.
How are they supposed to get re-elected? What excuse do they have for screwing the voters who elected them?

Well now you're bringing up real issues against Trump. At the end of the day we're going to have to start asking ourselves if our vote even amounts to anything anymore.

This is interesting. How can the media cover this? In order to help defeat Trump, they would need to point out that he has allowed to continue all of the government waste that the media loves, all of the Libtard delusional garbage. So, do the start reporting the truth, tripping on themselves, or continue their delusions knowing they will be helping Trump get re-elected?

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, May 15, 2017 2:21 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
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Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
How badly did Trump just fail the other day?
New Spending Bill boosts funding for Planned Parenthood, Sanctuary Cities, H1B Visas, Obamacare funding and support, and almost everything else he campaigned on. Plus all of the reasonable Republicans who campaigned on the same - except they were serious, not planning to use these subjects as mere bargaining chips.
How are they supposed to get re-elected? What excuse do they have for screwing the voters who elected them?
Well now you're bringing up real issues against Trump. At the end of the day we're going to have to start asking ourselves if our vote even amounts to anything anymore.
This is interesting. How can the media cover this? In order to help defeat Trump, they would need to point out that he has allowed to continue all of the government waste that the media loves, all of the Libtard delusional garbage. So, do the start reporting the truth, tripping on themselves, or continue their delusions knowing they will be helping Trump get re-elected?

crickets?

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, May 23, 2017 5:39 AM

Sounds like Trump's Budget Blueprint gets released tomorrow.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, May 26, 2017 5:24 AM

Thanks to Second posting this in another thread:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61682

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Have you found a copy of the Trump Budget as released yesterday? I could not find an online copy last night.
Here: www.npr.org/2017/05/23/529713148/white-house-budget-for-2018-read-the-
full-plan

Download: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3728848/White-House-Budget-
For-FY2018.pdf

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Saturday, August 26, 2017 1:15 PM

Obama's decimation of the military has created a state where over 70 airplanes cannot even fly out of the way of hurricane Harvey and must be left on the ground in Texas.

Hope Trump can start to reverse this embarrassing status with some funding.

http://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2017/08/25/71-of-the-navys
-t-45s-trainer-jets-could-not-evacuate-storm/

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/navys-kingsville-base-unable-to-evac
uate-most-t-45-jets-before-hurricane-harvey-hits/article/2632615

6STRINGJOKER

Saturday, August 26, 2017 8:24 PM

I think the military gets enough. They need to learn how to budget.

I think one of the only good things Obama did was decrease military spending. That's all going to be undone though if the fucking idiots in our government can't figure it out and let a bunch of our equipment fall into disrepair.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, January 1, 2018 1:17 AM

Bumping this for review following Tax Reform.