Housing Secretary Ben Carson Says Poverty Is A 'State Of Mind'

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(05-26-2017, 08:53 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Exactly. A lot of people recognize a need to reduce spending. But when we reduce spending we shouldn't be leaving our citizens hanging out to dry. The defense budget is half of our discretionary budget, and with the proposed budget it would probably become about 2/3rds. This budget isn't going to go anywhere, because a president's budget is less about what will happen fiscally and more about what the policy priorities are for the administration. This budget is not "America first" because it is going to result in reduced services to those that need them most in our country to line the pockets of the military industrial complex.

Perhaps the new budget will reduce the folks that are receiving subsides that "need them the most". I've read Economic Growth under Obama was the worst of any President since WWII and only Herbert Hoover was worse since the Great Depression.

Maybe this budget looks to be proactive instead of reactive. "Pockets of big business" is just something folks say that failed to look at an economic model.