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" As usual, the sum total of President Trump’s pronouncements added up to a negative number. Here are a few of the more striking contradictions from this week alone.
On Friday, President Trump was making news again, after having appeared to be subdued (or muzzled?) by his staff midweek. But he addressed the conservative equivalent of that bar scene in Star Wars, CPAC. As usual, the sum total of his wacky pronouncements added up to a negative number. Here are a few of the more striking contradictions:
1. At CPAC Trump complained that the US deficit has soared to $20 trillion.
Then he said:
The federal government plans to collect $3.2 trillion in taxes and fees in fiscal 2017 and to spend $3.6 trillion–i.e. is spending $400 billion more than it has. The military budget is a quarter of the federal budget.
War spending cannot be expanded without vastly increasing the deficit, as Trump himself seemed to admit when he talked about the wastefulness of the Bush wars. "
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/top_five_hypocrisies_of_the_trump_administration_20170225
On Friday, President Trump was making news again, after having appeared to be subdued (or muzzled?) by his staff midweek. But he addressed the conservative equivalent of that bar scene in Star Wars, CPAC. As usual, the sum total of his wacky pronouncements added up to a negative number. Here are a few of the more striking contradictions:
1. At CPAC Trump complained that the US deficit has soared to $20 trillion.
Then he said:
We’re also put nothing a massive budget request for our beloved military. And we will be substantially upgrading all of our military, all of our military, offensive, defensive, everything, bigger and better and stronger than ever before. And hopefully, we’ll never have to use it, but nobody’s gonna mess with us, folks, nobody.
The annual US military budget is $773.5 billion. The US spends as much on the military as the next 14 countries, and this massive spending on war-related institutions drives the country into repeated wars (war spending creates constituents and lobbies).
The federal government plans to collect $3.2 trillion in taxes and fees in fiscal 2017 and to spend $3.6 trillion–i.e. is spending $400 billion more than it has. The military budget is a quarter of the federal budget.
War spending cannot be expanded without vastly increasing the deficit, as Trump himself seemed to admit when he talked about the wastefulness of the Bush wars. "
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/top_five_hypocrisies_of_the_trump_administration_20170225