Quote Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter View Post
FoxtArt, the hate for Trump is really derailing the value of your posts. I get it, there are a lot of things that piss me off about him too but my post wasn?t directly about the deficit (although there?s potential for a secondary effect there). It was about how the Democrats are threatening a shutdown and they don?t seem to realize they aren?t in a position to manipulate this particular shutdown into maximizing the pain on the American public.

In past shutdowns, this is precisely what they did which left the less informed citizenry with the idea that reduction in government spending equals pain and inconvenience in their daily lives. Trump seems to be preparing to show the citizenry that a significant reduction in the size and scope of government will be minor if any pain and inconvenience. Government spending has grown 30% in the last 5 years. The first year of that was all on Trump although he had the COVID spending as a partial excuse but the last 4 years of it was all on the Dems. Regardless of who pushed that spending increase, it?s not healthy for the nation or the economy so I think getting the public to understand it can be trimmed and programs can be terminated is a good first step.

Hell, I?d have given Clinton or Obama credit if either of them had done this but they didn?t ? they did precisely the opposite, inflicting the maximum possible damage on the public to keep the spending flowing.
Sir:
I apologize for side tracking your thread.
I would agree with everything you said.
We will see.
Though me, personally since I'm tied to the Military, wish they would just stop already just set these budgets for a few years and be done.
It is VERY frustrating to literally go year to year with no idea of what or how much the Military budget might be.