Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Trump proposes cuts at Commerce, Energy, Transportation, Justice, State.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to be privatized; National Endowments for the Arts and Humanity to be abolished.
OH, YEAH.
Joe Doakes
Finally.
Piss Christ will have to be put on wheels.
No modern president has ever reduced the total Federal spending. Trump (if Ryan lets him) is heading for “huuge” expenditures. His big plans for cutting Federal spending include shutting down the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. This will save 10 cents.
All of Trumps policies point to a rising dollar over the next 24 months. This will hurt exports, draw foreign money into US treasuries, increase US interest rates and feed inflation.
A good start.
My, my, my… More economic prognostication from eTASS. Hey, how did that Brexit forecast work out for yea? You must be using them “alternative facts”. REAL gigapixel pics were just released, by CNN no less, indicating sTrumpet inauguration turnout was at least as large as 0bumbler’s in 2009. And 0bumbler benefitted from giving fed workers a day off, teachers pulling kids out of class and 200mi radius around DC being 75% libturd country. Wrong again, wrong always. How does that raw egg on your face taste? Like shit, I bet, since your head is still firmly lodged in your ass.
I am home this morning and put on channel 4 – WCCO a few minutes ago. A mid-morning news program. They were discussing if they should be calling Donald Trumps lies, “lies”. Basically they are saying they should use the world “lie” when talking about Trump.
Now, Trump says a lot of stupid things and should be called out on them. I just wish WCCO had this kind of policy when Dan Rather used fake docs to try to throw the 2004 election. But it was just the opposite. Don Shelby swore up and down that those forged/fake docs were real.
In our post-fact world assertion is everything.
After all, if they could understand cause-and-effect they wouldn’t have voted for Brexit in the first place.
Regarding budgets going down, they did after 1945, after 1953, and even about half a decade ago. Isn’t this “modern”? I am glad to see Trump going against his earlier positions about subsidies for wealthy people (NEH, NEA) being acceptable. Whether it will result in overall reductions in spending is yet to determine–I’d agree that I would not anticipate Trump doing this, but he’s surprised me pleasantly a time or two already.
When people don’t act as Liberals want them to, Liberals have only a limited number of responses.
You don’t understand (you are uninformed; we didn’t get our message out; you’ve been taken in by fake news).
You are incapable of understanding (you are stupid; you lack sufficient education to comprehend the point; you lack relevant experience to get it).
You are wicked (you act from hatred of others; you act against your interest from suicidal self-loathing).
The one response Liberals never offer is “Oops, I guess I was wrong.” Never. Indeed, they double-down and escalate. If they first called you uninformed, they’ll now call you stupid and wicked.
Emery’s 10:26 combines all three. A trifecta!
If I told my wife that I was cutting back on McDonalds so I could put more into our retirement account, total family spending would not go down but our realigned priorities would better utilize the money spent.
This is a metaphor, Emery, not an invitation to talk about retirement accounts in Sweden. I’m trying to explain why total federal spending is not the focus of Trump’s cuts.
In three years, Social Security runs out of money. We’re going to need to cut spending elsewhere to fund it. This is a brilliant start.
Obama on January 18th:
“The reason that we are the only country among advanced countries that makes it harder to vote is, it traces directly back to Jim Crow and the legacy of slavery. It became sort of acceptable to restrict the franchise. That’s not who we are. That shouldn’t be who we are. That’s not when America works best.”
This is a lie. Virtually every other democracy in the world requires government issued ID to vote.
Waiting for the MSM to call Obama out on the lie . . .
Exactly, Joe Doakes.
Cutting National Endowments for the Arts and Humanity from the federal dole sets the example and expectation that federal dollars are not to be spent in a fashion more appropriate to a rich dilettante or philanthropist.
That’s what we have rich dilettantes and philanthropists for … and if poorer folks wish to get in on that action, today they can use kickstarter or gofundme to do it.
no wonder the lefties on my Facebook feed are melting down, he’s destroying
their cash cows.
Every time there is a Republican president, I get pleas from liberal friends to sign a petition to save the NEA. I have started getting those requests again. But, it doesn’t go away, and I would guess it won’t with Trump.
mpls/stp has a medium sized army of Art Parasites that live off the NEA/NEH, State Arts Board, Bush grants, and the like. They literally march in step, go watch them at the next May Day parade. They are the white people that populate the BLM protests wearing the costumes, making the signs and loudly expressing their special snowflakeness. Their FB feeds are filled with the wailing and gnashing of teeth that Trump incites – good times.
The R legislators need to cut off the Heritage funding for these groups and they’ll move away to Portland, San Francisco or Seattle
If this is his opening salvo – I approve.