03-01-2017, 02:50 PM
(03-01-2017, 02:34 PM)GMDino Wrote: He also said he's going to cut everyone's taxes...increase spending...and get us out of debt. I swear I've heard that snake oil pitch before.
This is the thing that gets me in all of this. So far with what we have heard about his budget plan is a sizeable increase to military spending coming from domestic discretionary spending, and nothing on entitlements.
Now, I'm not for just slashing entitlement spending like some are. The money that is marked for those funds needs to stay that way, but we need to reform the programs and work on efficiency. But I just can't fathom how increasing a defense budget that already makes up one-third of the world's military spending as a whole when we have a growing debt and lots of problems to fix at home makes any sense. I would wager there are some places in there that could use some efficiency overhauls.
Strategic planning has been making its way into the public sector from the private for a couple of decades now, maybe that is something that a business leader should bring to the federal government. Could help them going forward.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
