Trumps budget blueprint is a war on the future of the American economy - Yglesias, Vox.com

[Bill USA]

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/16/14940712/trump-budget-science-education-health

[font size="3"]President Donald Trump’s debut budget proposal is a stark declaration of war on the future of the American economy that substitutes a curious mix of ideology and blind nostalgia for any effort to think critically about the actual needs of a 21st-century nation.[/font]

The war starts with reducing spending — even though an aging population, plus the government’s role in inherently labor-intensive activities like education and long-term care, militates overwhelmingly in favor of a somewhat larger role for the state. But it continues with the priorities Trump set for where the remaining cash gets spent.

The picture that emerges is overwhelmingly one of nostalgia — more money for men with guns, less money for education, caring, and pointy-headed science. But nostalgia is not memory. The midcentury economy Trump yearns for was, almost by definition, less technologically advanced and educationally intensive than today’s.

But it was an extraordinarily forward-looking time. Propelled by the imperatives of Cold War competition, the United States made investments on an unprecedented scale in institutions dedicated to education and research, while engaging in massive public-private partnerships to disseminate then-new technological marvels like cars, phones, and televisions.
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[Warpy]

1. It's also a bad joke. He can ask for what he wants

but ultimately it's the House that draws up the final document and passes it. I don't know if they're going to make such deep cuts to outfits like NASA, NOAA, and other agencies that have become necessary to industry. We can forget about the arts and humanities for the short term, those right wing killjoys think they can get away with making life cheerless for the people as long as they don't inconvenience industry and industrialized agriculture.

Passing the Dolt45 budget as it is would end in outright rebellion and I think those comfortable old boys know it.

[world wide wally]

2. He is weakening the country for Putin

[pnwest]

3. more like a war IN the future of America.....

they sure are gearing up for starting one, including lining up funding. Ratfuckers.