Trump's proposed pillaging budget perfectly describes him

© 2017 Peter Free

 

25 May 2017

 

 

Not much needs to be said about Pudgy Khan's 2018 budget proposal

 

From Amy Goodman:

 

 

The budget proposes slashing $800 billion from Medicaid, nearly $200 billion from nutritional assistance programs, such as food stamps and Meals on Wheels, and more than $72 billion from disability benefits.

 

The plan would also completely eliminate some student loan programs.

 

The budget also calls for an historic 10 percent increase in military spending and another $2.6 billion to further militarize the U.S.-Mexico border, including $1.6 billion to build Trump's border wall.

 

© 2017 Amy Goodman, Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Trump's Budget Takes a Sledgehammer to What Remains of the "American Dream", Democracy Now! (24 May 2017) (paragraph split)

 

 

There would also be massive cuts to health research, not to mention all the other scientific endeavors destined for the guillotine:

 

 

The National Cancer Institute would be hit with a $1 billion cut compared to its 2017 budget. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute would see a $575 million cut, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases would see a reduction of $838 million. The administration would cut the overall National Institutes of Health budget from $31.8 billion to $26 billion.

 

The National Science Foundation, which dispenses grants to a variety of scientific research endeavors, would be trimmed $776 million, an 11 percent cut.

 

© 2017 Joel Achenbach and Lena H. Sun, Trump budget seeks huge cuts to science and medical research, disease prevention, Washington Post (23 May 2017) (excerpts)

 

 

This 2018 budget — we are told — is about what's important

 

Let's boost the already out of control Military Industrial Complex, so that it can kill still more innocents — to the Great American Plutocracy's pocket-filling glee.

 

And simultaneously execute (by omission) or torment (by commission) tens of thousands of Americans.

 

A Republican's dream come true.

 

 

Note

 

Along this line, Matt Wuerker's Trump tells the Pope his favorite Bible story cartoon is soulfully apt. See it, here.

 

Take a moment to consider the levels of intellectual and moral stupidity, combined with eager (self-and-other) deception, that Wuerker depicts.

 

 

The moral? — As Stephan Richter has said, we are not a serious society

 

I am often given pause at how willingly Americans let influential looters dominate our lives.

 

Perhaps our acquiescent complacence proves Pudgy Khan's point about the Loser Class's worthlessness.