HuffPost: The Dark Lord’s Budget

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-budget_us_58cb0384e4b0ec9d29da5634

“A presidential budget isn’t so much a policy proposal as a statement of an administration’s moral vision for the country. The budget presented by President Donald Trump on Thursday is a document fundamentally unconcerned with the government’s role in improving the plight of its most vulnerable citizens.

That message is clear in the budget’s topline proposals and its deeper details. Trump calls for a $54 billion boost in defense spending and immigration enforcement. More border patrol agents, more Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, more fighter jets that don’t work, and a border wall with Mexico. To offset those fresh expenses, he wants to take an ax to a host of anti-poverty programs ― everything from public housing to food programs helping elderly people with disabilities.”

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Tax breaks for the rich, more bombs for the military, an un-needed wall, dirty air, no diplomacy, and lumps of coal for the poor.

PWS

03/16/17

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Gus Villageliu
Gus Villageliu
7 years ago

You should make clear that because we are apparently in the “Empire Strikes Back” segment of the Trilogy, your reference to the “Dark Lord” refers to Darth Vader, and not to the “Dark Lord of Middle Earth” from the JRR Tolkien series.

Gus Villageliu
Gus Villageliu
7 years ago

True. But reference to Darth Vader and “The Empire Strikes Back” reminds us that there will be a “Return of the Jedi”. May the Force be with you!