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Trump’s Budget: More Warfare, Slightly Less Welfare
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2020 Feb 18, 11:05am 398 views 1 comment
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HeadSet
2020 Feb 18, 1:22pm
HeadSet
2020 Feb 18, 1:22pm
many progressives are happy to support increased warfare spending
Because the spending is in their districts. Look how pro-military otherwise lefty Va Senators Warren and Kaine are, since their State includes huge military installations along with Newport News Shipyard. New carriers are just fine with them.
Because the spending is in their districts. Look how pro-military otherwise lefty Va Senators Warren and Kaine are, since their State includes huge military installations along with Newport News Shipyard. New carriers are just fine with them.
Few in DC have expressed concern over the fact that President Trump’s 4.8 trillion dollars budget proposal is the largest budget in American history. There is also little outcry from supposedly antiwar progressive Democrats over Trump’s proposal to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on militarism. This is not surprising, as many progressives are happy to support increased warfare spending as long as conservatives go along with increased welfare spending. Similarly, many conservatives are happy to support increased welfare spending as long as it means that progressives will vote for increased warfare spending. So, Congress is unlikely to approve any of President Trump’s spending cuts, but Congress will gleefully agree to all of his spending increases....
Continuing to waste billions on wars abroad and failed programs at home while pretending that we can avoid a crisis via phony cuts and Fed-fueled growth will only make the inevitable collapse more painful.