[Jim Noble]

JFK’s last submitted Federal Budget was $99 billion, which was sufficient to have a great and powerful nation, AND to go to the moon.

That would be $780 billion in 2017 dollars. They’re doing something wrong.

[vmivol00]

Thanks for the perspective. Trump should proposed the JFK budget and the let the Dems squirm.

[hinckley buzzard]

And, the defense budget was fully 50% of that 99 billion dollars. That should tell us what has gone wrong, now that defense is in single digits.

[Lumper20]

Look at the size of the Fed Gov. Look at the damn VA alone. The VA was never meant to be the plan available to treat every Vet who ever served whether active duty, reserve or NG.
I recall when you had to be Cat 1 to use the VA for anything except a true emergency. Then around the late 90’s to 2002 or so (both Clinton and Bush) I started seeing Category 7’s and 8’s being seen. Now the VA will treat just about anyone who ever served. Look at all the folks on Gov programs now like food stamps, Sec 8, free cell phone, etc. Sad as hell.