03-20-2017, 09:01 AM
I think the most disgusting thing was Mulvaney saying it was kind to Trump's supporters, when it literally will take food out of their mouths.
Anyway, moving past that and to the whole thing about not making it deficit neutral. This document is nothing more than setting policy priorities. No one with any knowledge and understanding of how this all works thinks that this is actually a budget, let alone the one that will pass through Congress. What this document does is send a message to the people of what the priorities are for the administration. This means that you can be as pie in the sky as you want to be ambitious and set out a deficit neutral skinny budget, then do it, because what Congress wants means absolutely nothing to this. He's already handing them a political nightmare to defend because of cuts to very popular programs among his supporters.
Anyway, moving past that and to the whole thing about not making it deficit neutral. This document is nothing more than setting policy priorities. No one with any knowledge and understanding of how this all works thinks that this is actually a budget, let alone the one that will pass through Congress. What this document does is send a message to the people of what the priorities are for the administration. This means that you can be as pie in the sky as you want to be ambitious and set out a deficit neutral skinny budget, then do it, because what Congress wants means absolutely nothing to this. He's already handing them a political nightmare to defend because of cuts to very popular programs among his supporters.
"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
