[Innovative]

Much better to spend the money on infrastructure, rather than supporting a bunch of no-good bums living off welfare all their lives.

[Joe Dallas]

The option of not spending the money does exist.

[sparklite2]

Much better to spend the money on infrastructure, rather than supporting a bunch of no-good bums living off welfare all their lives.

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And who do you think the ‘advanced work training’ billions will be wasted on?

[confederatecarpetbag]

Your statement is true in a vacuum. The problem is we aren’t going to spend money only on infrastructure — we’ll also continue to subsidize the same lazy bums anyway.

I would be ok with the infrastructure spending, if the program was designed to trigger automatic and substantial cuts to winnow federal spending levels in other areas. Especially the apparently sizable number of “nonessential personnel” we seem to make do without during every shutdown.

On a side note, maybe this is another Trump ploy to get the Dems on record opposing an initiative similar to what they ramrodded through under Obama, aka “the Stimulus.” Shutdown Schumer is already against it, just like he is against Trump’s (overly generous) DACA plan.

[FreeReign]

Much better to spend the money on infrastructure, rather than supporting a bunch of no-good bums living off welfare all their lives.

So then we will be making 1.5 trillion in spending cuts elsewhere?

Of course not.

First we get budget with a trillion dollar deficit. Next we get an 1.5 trillion dollar infrastructure spending bill.