President trump's budget proposal for 2020 is his advisor's dream of how to "f**k" old people! Cut Medicaid and Medicare and increase defense?
DoD is merely going to lose and waste the added funding! DoD cannot manage the budget they have. Has President Trump ever looked at the byzantine Federal Acquisition regulation of the Program, Planning, and Budgeting Process?
Regular people can't live this way! Rich people do not care!
He thinks this will please his Base? I think they are wrong! I hope they are wrong. Trump lied to his base!
Trump lied to his Base to get votes. Will the people he is hurting now vote for him again?
"Trump said he wouldn’t cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3."
Trump said he wouldn’t be like “every other Republican.” He is.
By Tara Golshan Mar 12, 2019, 2:40pm EDT
"“I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Trump told the Daily Signal, a conservative publication affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, in 2015."
"Trump's 2020 budget deemed cruel over welfare reform"
By Diane KayePublished March 12, 2019
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/rrump-2020-budget-deemed-cruel-over-welfare-reform
"President Trump’s 2020 budget Opens a New Window. caused a stir from critics over a welfare reform proposal requiring people to work in exchange for welfare benefits.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the proposal, “cruel and shortsighted…a roadmap to a sicker, weaker America.”"
Of course Fox only sees the work-for-welfare element of a complex welfare system, refusing to see the human element or look deeper.
Did Obama do the same things, and is it bad for folks or not?
"When it comes to Medicare, the White House has been very clear: “He’s not cutting Medicare in this budget,” Vought said. “What we are doing is putting forward reforms that lower drug prices. Because Medicare pays a very large [share] of drug prices in this country, [that] has the impact of finding savings. We are also finding waste, fraud, and abuse.”
Here’s what’s actually happening: This budget proposes finding $845 billion in savings over 10 years from Medicare as we know it. But $269 billion of that figure is reclassified under the Department of Health and Human Services, bringing the Medicare cuts to $575 billion. As Vox explained, the administration says it will achieve these cost reductions by targeting wasteful spending and provider payments and lowering prescription drug costs.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which advocates for fiscal responsibility, estimates that 85 percent of these cuts will come from reductions in provider payments, 5 percent would come from policies around medical malpractice, and 11 percent would come from reducing drug costs through the Medicare Part D program. Medicare Part D is the only area of these reforms that could raise out-of-pocket drug prices for some while lowering it for others. Otherwise, premiums, deductibles, and copays would largely be left unaffected.
Unsurprisingly, the Federation of American Hospitals is not a fan of this part of Trump’s budget proposal. In a statement, they called the reforms “devastating for seniors.” More surprisingly, as Axios’s Sam Baker points out, these reforms are pretty similar to policies Barack Obama proposed in 2012 that Republicans panned."
OK, this might be acceptable. But it is complex, like airplane technology. Or maybe not acceptable when we look close.
"But when it comes to Trump’s proposed changes to Medicaid and Social Security, the intent is unambiguous: These are cuts to benefits."
THIS budget is a broken promise!
"Trump budget proposal counts on optimistic growth, deep cuts"
By Lisa Mascaro | AP - March 12, 2019
"Reviving his border wall fight with Congress, Trump wants more than $8 billion for the barrier with Mexico, and he’s also asking for a big boost in military spending. That’s alongside steep cuts in health care and economic support programs for the poor that Democrats — and even some Republicans — will oppose."
Which spending is reckless and which is consistent with American values to help neighbors in need? Is it the intent to blame the elderly, sick, weak, needy, mentally ill, physically challenged, helpless, and poor for the deficits? Is it going to be the poor who shoulder the burden of bad budget management?
Yes, let the poor have it right between the eyes! WTF!!
"It cuts the Department of Housing and Urban Development by 16 percent and Education by 10 percent, but includes $1 billion for a child care fund championed by the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, a White House adviser."
Is our Christian Zionist VP Mike Pence happy now?
"Trump’s 2020 budget proposal seriously cuts the nation’s safety net"
Ahead of 2020, Trump is going after Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and more.
By Tara Golshan Mar 11, 2019, 2:20pm EDT
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/11/18259789/trumps-2020-budget-proposal-cuts
We do not need the poor. Maybe we can eat them ala "A Modest Proposal," by Jonathan Swift?
And President Trump is dumb about airplanes and technology too!
"2 charts refuting Trump’s claim that “airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly”"
Trump may not want “Einstein” to be his pilot, but the data indicates he should.
By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Updated Mar 12, 2019, 7:10pm EDT
The airplanes are SAFER because of the "complexity!"
