This guy is a cumstain on a shitstain on a piece of rancid, maggoty meat. Do we wish horrible accidents upon him? Yes, we do. Would Hitler have suggested that children going to school hungry is okay? Probably, as long as they weren't Aryans. Is this guy on the same level as baby-rapers and incestuous child molesters? Yes, he is.
Would he ask a single mother to pay for more bombs and
warships? Fuck, yeah, he would.....
White House Says Cutting Meals on Wheels Is
‘Compassionate’
By Eric Levitz
The Daily
Intelligencer
Trump’s new budget would increase defense
spending by $54 billion — while slashing funding for medical research, climate
science, public housing, education, aid to the indigent, infrastructure, and
many, many other things.
On Thursday morning, the White House’s
budget director Mick Mulvaney explained that these changes were inspired by
one, simple question: “Can we ask the taxpayer to pay for this?”
Here’s what he said:
“When you start looking at places that we reduce
spending, one of the questions we asked was, can we really continue to ask a
coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these
programs? The answer was no,” Mulvaney told MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “We can
ask them to pay for defense, and we will, but we can’t ask them to continue to
pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”
This was a bizarre defense of the Trump
budget for several reasons. To name just three:
(1) The U.S. already spends more more on its military than China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the
United Kingdom, France, India, and Germany — combined. By contrast, America
spends far less than its peers (per capita) on many of the initiatives that the
Trump’s budget cuts.
(2) Trump’s proposal cuts many programs that are more intuitively valuable to coal
miners in West Virginia — and single mothers in Detroit — than a 10 percent
increase in defense spending. The president’s budget cuts funding for
early-childhood education, public housing, transit, food assistance, and job
training — all programs that disproportionately benefit single mothers in cities
with low median incomes. And it also abolishes the Appalachian Regional
Commission and Rural Business-Cooperative Service, while shrinking the Labor
Department — all moves that disadvantage coal miners.
(3) If the White House feels bad about
taking money from coal miners and single mothers, then why is one of its top
priorities to pass an enormous, regressive tax cut?
CNN’s Jim Acosta asked Mulvaney to address
some of the tensions in his argument at a White House press briefing Thursday
afternoon.
And here’s what happened …
“Just to follow-up on
that, you were talking about the steel worker in Ohio, coal worker in
Pennsylvania, but they may have an elderly mother who depends on the Meals on
Wheels program or who may have kids in Head Start,” Acosta said. “Yesterday, or
the day before, you described this as a hard-power budget. Is it also a
hard-hearted budget?”
“No, I don’t think so,”
Mulvaney replied. “I think it’s probably one of the most compassionate things
we can do.”
“To cut programs that
help the elderly and kids?” Acosta asked, incredulously.
“You’re only focusing on
half of the equation, right? You’re focusing on the recipients of the money.
We’re trying to focus on both the recipients of the money and the
folks who give us the money in the first place,” Mulvaney explained. “And I
think it’s fairly compassionate to go to them and say, ‘Look, we’re not gonna
ask you for your hard-earned money, anymore, single mother of two in Detroit …
unless we can guarantee to you that that money is actually being used in a
proper function.’”
This is obscene. In
addition to the cuts already mentioned, Trump’s budget slashes rental
assistance and home-energy aid to low-income families. His plan would almost
certainly increase the rate of homelessness and malnutrition experienced by the
children of single mothers in Detroit.
Mulvaney’s argument
doesn’t even make sense on its own terms. By itself, this budget has no impact
on taxes — it just transfers federal spending from programs that directly
benefit working families to ones that don’t. And the Trump administration has
expressed no interest in significantly cutting payroll or sales taxes,
which make up the bulk of many a Detroit resident’s tax burden.
On Thursday, the White
House explained that the key distinction between the Defense department and the
anti-poverty programs it wishes to cut is that the latter have “failed to meet
their objectives.”
Here is how Trump described the return on investment that the Pentagon has
provided the American people, back when he was running for president.
"We’ve spent $4 trillion trying to topple
various people that, frankly, if they were there and if we could have spent
that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, and all of
the other problems — our airports and all the other problems we have — we would
have been a lot better off, I can tell you that right now.
We have done a tremendous disservice not only to the Middle East — we’ve done a tremendous disservice to humanity. The people that have been killed, the people that have been wiped away — and for what? It’s not like we had victory. It’s a mess. The Middle East is totally destabilized, a total and complete mess. I wish we had the 4 trillion dollars or 5 trillion dollars. I wish it were spent right here in the United States on schools, hospitals, roads, airports, and everything else that are all falling apart!"
We have done a tremendous disservice not only to the Middle East — we’ve done a tremendous disservice to humanity. The people that have been killed, the people that have been wiped away — and for what? It’s not like we had victory. It’s a mess. The Middle East is totally destabilized, a total and complete mess. I wish we had the 4 trillion dollars or 5 trillion dollars. I wish it were spent right here in the United States on schools, hospitals, roads, airports, and everything else that are all falling apart!"
In light of this stellar record, increasing the rate of child homelessness to finance new weapons systems is one of “the most compassionate things we can do.” Just go to Detroit and ask a single mother.
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