As the President said, he didn’t like the bill but his first priority as President is to defend our country.
The new law goes a long way towards rebuilding our depleted military - and giving our troops a long-deserved pay raise for their hard work serving our country.
That comes before every thing else and conservatives have to swallow castor oil to get it accomplished.
Trump had to deal with this Bill to get Defense spending, he won’t in the future ones.
Good glad to see you posted this. I commented to your post on another thread concerning this.
Good article and one that the blind nay-sayers need to read and accept as FACT.
Trying to put a happy face on a turd out in the yard a neighbor’s dog left for us.
Conservatism is Dead. Long Live Conservatism.
What wins beside the Military? New Wall? Nope! De fund Sanctuary Cities? Nope!. De fund Planned Parenthood? Nope! De Fund Obama Care? Nope!
The fact that the 2,232-page bill was jammed down legislators’ throats
While I’m thankful our military is adequately funded, there is a “game” being played here.
When was the last time congress passed a budget?
Why are we borrowing money at interest from say, China, to give it to Italy? How does that make any sense? The national government is in debt to the tune of $21 Trillion dollars, with at least triple that in unfunded liabilities. If you’re wondering what the unfunded liabilities are, they mean YOU.
People are sick of foreign deployments and/or wars that go on and on and on seemingly indefinitely. What happened to the 4 Year Rule? Why are we defending the border in say, South Korea, but we won’t defend the American border? That’s insanity. You’ll hear politicians talk about how “we can’t disengage and become isolationist”; nobody is suggesting that we disengage. They are ever offering us a false choice. Endless entanglements, with no end in sight, with no purpose that anyone can divine spending blood and treasure, while other politicians claim what we really need to do is get rid of our southern border altogether. And the Democrats seem to want to campaign on getting rid of the Border and Customs division.
So huge expenditures for “homeland security” but the border is wide open. Clinton was REJECTED because of shit just like this. Good thing Republicans hold both houses of congress otherwise stuff like “Planned Parenthood” would be fully funded, so-called “Sanctuary Cities” and another bailout of Obiecare would be jammed down the taxpayers throat.
Be still my heart.
From the article:”conservatives should prepare for the next fight, which will be backed by a presidential veto.”
Right. It’s always the next fight and a get tough promise. Excuse me, but I don’t believe it. We’ve been lied to so many times that I don’t care. They can do whatever they want; I’ll decide whether I want to comply or not.
Let me know when the criminals are arrested.
This spending bill will lead to a deficit of over $1 trillion dollars this year. That's reason enough to oppose it.
Mainly for export only - we don't really fly them (and with good reason).
How can the big increase in defense spending be called conservative? Each year the DOD loses track billions of dollars. Billions of dollars disappear and nobody in the DOD can explain where the money is or where it went.
This amounts to trillions of dollars over the years.
As long as incompetence, sloppiness and unaccountability is rewarded, it will not be fixed. The DOD has become a slow moving fat and happy bureaucracy that has more people focused on gays and transgenders and diversity and sensitivity and safe spaces than on its mission. But it isn’t just those things we ridicule. The DOD is involved in hundreds of irrelevant activities and irrelevant equipment.
The DOD should be made mean and lean.
Lots of folks wanting to throw the war because of a “less than optimum” outcome of a battle - as long as Trump continues to fight, I’ll be at his side.
I am over my rage and find comfort in this article. OK, let’s MAGA. As long as everyone keeps their promises the budget will work out and cuts will eventually come about. Now let’s put some people in jail! Drain that swamp and build that wall.
I'm thinking that if we were not involved in just about every conflict on the planet maybe out armed forces could get by on 5 or 6 hundred billion dollars a year. If I am not mistaken we already spend more than any other nation by far on our military. I would prefer to bring the boys and girls home and mind our own business. I am tried to being the worlds police man. How about a little America First for a change? Well that in not likely now that the neocon John Bolten has the presidents ear.
The fact that defense spending got a boost in this bill is no reason to look at it as anything other than a defeat. Its pathetic that, after years of Obama’s massive spending increases (and Bush’s spending increases, for that matter), the budget can’t be cut. The Republican’s don’t even try. They don’t want to try. They haven’t wanted to try since the early to mid 1990s. Using the defense increases as a way to defend this budget is pathetic.
I wonder if Trump has decided to rope-a-dope the establishment in the short term with the knowledge that there will be exposure of Obama era corruption/illegal spying coming out before the mid-terms.
The problem is Republicans in the House and Senate.