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Trump Releases His First Budget Blueprint: Here Are The Winners And Losers
Zero Hedge ^
| 03/16/17
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 03/16/2017 6:30:13 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1
Hopefully the taxpayers are the winners...
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posted on
03/16/2017 6:34:34 AM PDT
by
farming pharmer
(www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
To: Enlightened1
They’re not losers; they’re non-essential reductions in light of $60+ trillion in Fed obligations.
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posted on
03/16/2017 6:36:32 AM PDT
by
lurk
(TEat)
To: Enlightened1
There is no question this is a hard-power budget, said Mulvaney. It is not a soft-power budget. It's a dead budget. Congress will never approve the cuts. Trump will have to shut the government down by vetoing what they do pass.
To: akalinin
Hopefully the taxpayers are the winners... I would imagine that would depend on whether you are a taxpayer who benefits from one of the cut programs or not.
To: All
54 billion more in defense seems a tad excessive.
To: DoodleDawg
Government shutdown coming? I keep having the thought pop into my mind these days. President Trump could probably use it to his advantage. Then once the come back start line item vetoing stuff.
If judges can appropriate power from other branches he might as well. Until we start impeaching crappy judges this all seems like half measures
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posted on
03/16/2017 6:47:26 AM PDT
by
datricker
(Democratic Party - aborting their voter base since 1973)
To: Enlightened1
Liberals going crazy over the arts of course, but the one thing they have seized on is a cut to the Meals on Wheels program and a couple other programs. I can see that in future Democrat campaign ads. I don’t see that as a program he should cut. That said, liberals will be furious about cuts because they want to continue to grow the government endlessly and just raise taxes.
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posted on
03/16/2017 6:48:42 AM PDT
by
Pinkbell
(http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2016/11/cnn-lies-multiple-times-to-help-hillary.html)
To: escapefromboston
Trump gave a speech talking about how depleted the military is complete with numbers and stats and made campaign promises to rebuild it so it’s the strongest it’s ever been, so I see this as fulfilling that promise.
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posted on
03/16/2017 6:52:03 AM PDT
by
Pinkbell
(http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2016/11/cnn-lies-multiple-times-to-help-hillary.html)
To: datricker
If the Republican (?) Congress returns to regular order and passes individual appropriation bills there will be no government wide shutdown even if one or two appropriation bills are vetoed.
To: DoodleDawg
Dead as a door-nail with hacks Lyin’ Ryan
and limp wrist McConnell in control of the houses.
Dead!
Dead!
Dead!
To: Enlightened1
Instead of saying to one another that it will never work, why not get behind it and make waves about how great it is, support the budget, speak loudly, write your Congressman and local media.
Of course Trump knows and we know the amount will be reduced, but let’s try to get as much as possible.
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posted on
03/16/2017 7:08:08 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: DoodleDawg
Hopefully the taxpayers are the winners...
I would imagine that would depend on whether you are a taxpayer who benefits from one of the cut programs or not.
Wouldn't users of benefits be tax consumers? I'd like the taxpayer to benefit.
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posted on
03/16/2017 7:08:32 AM PDT
by
farming pharmer
(www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
To: Enlightened1
I’d like to see this as a percentage of their current budget.
Here’s why: SOP in for-profit business is to restrict discretionary spending when times get tough. This is not salaraies and bills that must be paid, but everything else, from travel and training to the paper clips in the supply cabinet. Trump should impose a 20% mandatory non-negotiable discretionary spending cut on every single federal agency except the military.
Every one of them can do their jobs on 80% of last years discretionary spend. Guaranteed.
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posted on
03/16/2017 7:13:33 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: escapefromboston
Excessive? Where have you been? Under Obama there were times there were no carriers at sea. United States budget sequestration in 2013 bled the military budget dry.
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posted on
03/16/2017 7:14:54 AM PDT
by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: akalinin
It looks to me like taxpayers and everyday citizens are the winners... This is a win.
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posted on
03/16/2017 7:20:09 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(How much is Soros paying the ACLU to sell out the country?)
To: Enlightened1
It's like turning around a giant cruise ship before it smashes into the pier - first you have to cut the throttles and figure out which way you want to turn. This budget is a pretty good statement of direction even if it doesn't get entirely passed right away. It will take a while for the public to get used to the idea that the government not doing so many things is to their benefit.
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posted on
03/16/2017 7:23:27 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
To: escapefromboston
Not if you realize that nothing has been done to protect our Country since Clinton...
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posted on
03/16/2017 7:24:11 AM PDT
by
HarleyLady27
('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
To: Enlightened1
Oh no! It’s the dreaded draconian budget cuts!
Must be a Republican in office.
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posted on
03/16/2017 7:27:35 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: Enlightened1
Why does GSA spending go up? Did Trey Gowdy rip the GSA a new one some time ago during hearings on their spending patterns? Something about $44 breakfasts, $75,000 for a party on assembling bicycles, a $200,000 conference ballooning to $800,000 for things like a commemorative yearbook and a dozen people on an advance "scouting party" to check out hotels, etc. Sounds pretty wasteful to me.
But they really need to go after the useless entitlement spending. What did things like SNAP and ADC spending go up under Obama? Something like $79 billion a year on food stamps? That kind of stuff needs to be reined in and I mean fast.
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posted on
03/16/2017 7:30:45 AM PDT
by
chimera
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