You're just not down with the God Emperor Trump Facebook page that keeps getting shared by people I know to see how cool everything is going.
The policy and politics of Trumpism
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someone who worked in dc on the hill back in the late 90s told me that it was somewhat of a consensus that sessions was far and away the stupidest person on the hill.
that nonsense has been played hours on end for 25+ years on talk radio and fox news.
and they are having a feast. but at this point, i don't think you can separate his base into crazy/not crazy
I'm by no means an expert with respect to this topic, but it seems to me that the Trump administration has proposed a budget that would eliminate a community development block grant, which some localities choose to use to fund a local Meals on Wheels program. Congress must agree with the proposed elimination and factor it into the legislative process. Personally, I don't see Congress eliminating the block grant, and I assume some localities will continue to fund a Meals on Wheels program regardless of the presence or absence of a federal community development block grant...assuming of course the program is important to the localities.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...to-trump-you-are-actually-a-disgusting-excuse
Uh oh! I'm guessing the Burger King has hacked McD's Twitter Account.
Uh oh! I'm guessing the Burger King has hacked McD's Twitter Account.
No hack:http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...to-trump-you-are-actually-a-disgusting-excuse
Uh oh! I'm guessing the Burger King has hacked McD's Twitter Account.
Well, knowing who Trump's base is -- I'd say they just made a bad business decision....
He's also cutting the NIH budget by 20%. We had a nice few decades of being the world's leader in science, but that's over now.
Eventually they won't be able to go anywhere or do anything with all their boycotts. Hawaii got the boycott nod in the last day or so too.
We need to end Military Keynesianism. Direct most defense spending towards maintaining currently held assets (stop spending on iterative improvements on the same ol' stuff we've had since the cold war) and the rest should go to old school DARPA/NASA style blue sky academic research. Lets be real, we need to stop preparing for a war fought 60 years ago and spend more on academic research that could create the battlefield circumstances of the war 20, 40, 60 years from now.
The current military spending culture is nothing more than government subsidization of private business. We've went light on the research projects that gave us the internet and personal computer that started as defense minded productivity and communication projects. Huntsville people might hate hearing this but their city has become the perfect example of the sickness of our government spending mindset when it use to be a center for research it is now just another place where defense contractors line up and beg for beggin strips.
We must end explosive defense-based deficit spending. If we're going to spend on a deficit, lets do it for something meaningful. We could cut defense spending in half and still spend more than the next 10-20 countries. We're being sold that we don't need deficit spending on social welfare because Boeing and General Dynamics are doing SUCH IMPORTANT things to keep us safe. As far as I can tell, defense contracting just creates a handful of 100k+ jobs where the top guys keep the lionshare of the money so they can build a substandard product that was suppose to make things more efficient but actually ends up requiring the DoD to make new uniformed service job specialities starting at 30-35k a year to manage this product made by a team of 250k engineers.
I've been in the military, I've seen this especially on the signal/comms side of the defensive spending spectrum. But I see the signs of this within mechanic shops, human resources, chemical, etc too. This stuff is worse than the "welfare queen."
The current military spending culture is nothing more than government subsidization of private business. We've went light on the research projects that gave us the internet and personal computer that started as defense minded productivity and communication projects. Huntsville people might hate hearing this but their city has become the perfect example of the sickness of our government spending mindset when it use to be a center for research it is now just another place where defense contractors line up and beg for beggin strips.
We must end explosive defense-based deficit spending. If we're going to spend on a deficit, lets do it for something meaningful. We could cut defense spending in half and still spend more than the next 10-20 countries. We're being sold that we don't need deficit spending on social welfare because Boeing and General Dynamics are doing SUCH IMPORTANT things to keep us safe. As far as I can tell, defense contracting just creates a handful of 100k+ jobs where the top guys keep the lionshare of the money so they can build a substandard product that was suppose to make things more efficient but actually ends up requiring the DoD to make new uniformed service job specialities starting at 30-35k a year to manage this product made by a team of 250k engineers.
I've been in the military, I've seen this especially on the signal/comms side of the defensive spending spectrum. But I see the signs of this within mechanic shops, human resources, chemical, etc too. This stuff is worse than the "welfare queen."
Not even in the same hemisphere.... Most of Trump's base cannot remotely afford to go to Hawaii. But, they probably eat at McD's 3-5x/week. Burger King, Hardees, Wendy's, Whataburger, all just saw their stock prices rise.
How is it not in the same hemisphere when I'm talking about ALL of the calls to boycott from the Cult of Trump? Not just Hawaii. Budweiser, the Hamilton play, Starbucks, Basic Facts etc. etc.
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