Warfare/Welfare State: Trump's Budget -- Radical Change Or More Of The Same?...

[Dschrute3]

Great column by Ron Paul.

President Donald Trump's proposed budget has generated hysteria among the American left. Prominent progressives have accused the president and his allies of wanting to kill children, senior citizens, and other vulnerable Americans. The reaction of the president’s allies — including some conservatives who should know better — is equally detached from reality as they hail Trump for launching a major assault on the welfare state and making the hard choices necessary to balance the budget...

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Trump’s Budget: Radical Change or More of the Same?

 

[Moonglow]

He said he had a heart and would not be like other GOP presidents and cut Social Security, yet the budget proposes cuts to Social Security.

 

[midcan5]

There is no such thing as the 'welfare state' and debt is a part of simple economics. Funny how a few terms have come to dominate the mind of the right in America. It is like listening to parrots trained by the same person. Say certain words and the right wing's light bulb goes off like a motion sensor. But the top twenty percent in America must laugh at the control economics for the simple minded has on the middle of America who continue to vote in corporate stooges.

"And here is the difficult part. The popular obsession with the top 1 percent allows the upper middle class to convince ourselves we are in the same boat as the rest of America; but it is not true. However messily it is expressed, much of the criticism of our class is true. We proclaim the “net” benefits of free trade, technological advances, and immigration, safe in the knowledge that we will be among the beneficiaries. Equipped with high levels of human capital, we can flourish in a global economy. The cities we live in are zoned to protect our wealth, but deter the unskilled from sharing in it. Professional licensing and an immigration policy tilted toward the low-skilled shield us from the intense market competition faced by those in nonprofessional occupations. We proclaim the benefits of free markets but are largely insulated from the risks they can pose. Small wonder other folks can get angry." The Dream Hoarders: How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality

The rise of the new global super-rich

What to read should you be among the right wing economic puppet class.

Highly Recommended: 'Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right' Jane Mayer
'Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal' Kim Phillips-Fein
'Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else' by Chrystia Freeland
'One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America' by Kevin M. Kruse

Trump today: Trump's Sleight of Hand Will Bring Ruin to American Workers

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[Norman]

There is no such thing as the 'welfare state' and debt is a part of simple economics. Funny how a few terms have come to dominate the mind of the right in America. It is like listening to parrots trained by the same person. Say certain words and the right wing's light bulb goes off like a motion sensor. But the top twenty percent in America must laugh at the control economics for the simple minded has on the middle of America who continue to vote in corporate stooges.

"And here is the difficult part. The popular obsession with the top 1 percent allows the upper middle class to convince ourselves we are in the same boat as the rest of America; but it is not true. However messily it is expressed, much of the criticism of our class is true. We proclaim the “net” benefits of free trade, technological advances, and immigration, safe in the knowledge that we will be among the beneficiaries. Equipped with high levels of human capital, we can flourish in a global economy. The cities we live in are zoned to protect our wealth, but deter the unskilled from sharing in it. Professional licensing and an immigration policy tilted toward the low-skilled shield us from the intense market competition faced by those in nonprofessional occupations. We proclaim the benefits of free markets but are largely insulated from the risks they can pose. Small wonder other folks can get angry." The Dream Hoarders: How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality

The rise of the new global super-rich

What to read should you be among the right wing economic puppet class.

Highly Recommended: 'Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right' Jane Mayer
'Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal' Kim Phillips-Fein
'Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else' by Chrystia Freeland
'One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America' by Kevin M. Kruse

Trump today: Trump's Sleight of Hand Will Bring Ruin to American Workers

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If there is no such thing as welfare state, why is most of the budget of the federal government directed to welfare (much more than for warfare - which as a hack you of course believe there is).

 

[g5000]

Trump's about to drop a trillion dollar government stimulus program for our infrastructure. Remember when the pseudocons screamed what a colossal waste that was when the black guy did that?

Remember when the pseudocons shit a brick every day the federal debt went up?

It's Okay When Trump Does It!™

 

[g5000]

At least Trump never promised he wouldn't raise the debt another few trillion dollars. The pseudocons can console themselves that isn't one more broken promise.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Trump's about to drop a trillion dollar government stimulus program for our infrastructure. Remember when the pseudocons screamed what a colossal waste that was when the black guy did that?

Remember when the pseudocons shit a brick every day the federal debt went up?

It's Okay When Trump Does It!™

For one, we don't know if Trump can get his infrastructure passed, so don't make it a racial thing because America is getting sick of it; it's one of the reasons you lost the Congress, Senate and the White House.

Secondly is that there were not many Republicans against infrastructure, they were against how it would be funded.

A simple gas tax would be appropriate because it would not be the liability of the wealthy alone. If we want roads and bridges to be maintained, we need to pitch in together and quit making politics out of it.

And thanks to fracking (something Democrats have always opposed) our gasoline prices are low enough where a fuel consumption tax could be affordable to everyone.