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The Republican-led Congress just recently elected to pass an ill-advised spending bill that explodes the deficit and eliminates spending caps until next year. Of course, that made the annual release of the White House budget an almost comical pro forma exercise; except that it sheds light on the administration's true priorities.

The priorities are simple: profits over people, more unnecessary and unaccounted-for military spending, and arbitrarily gutting regulations, so that the metaphorical swamp can be drained right into America's drinking water with impunity. Starve the government beast and feed its carcass to the military and build a wall.

It goes like this:

Poor folks, you've been asking for it for a long time. You had it coming when you bought a, gasp, Diet Coke with your food stamps. What did you think was going to happen when you mouthed off about not being able to find a decent job that paid more than minimum wage? Trump's going to slap away that subsidized housing for your own good. You're going to need some healthcare, alright, when this budget gets ahold of you, but you're on your own if you don't pass those mandatory drug screens for being poor. Better learn your place or Trump's going to get Jeff Sessions to send one of those "Anglo-American" sheriffs out to set you straight.

Trump thinks it's about time that all you freeloaders listening to NPR and watching public television start watching commercials and reality TV like everybody else. Who needs a National Endowment for the Arts, anyway? Fake arts. Oh, we'll get rid of those publicly funded space telescopes and NASA education programs, too. If Elon Musk can afford to launch a convertible into space, then you can afford to watch it on pay-per-view. Besides, the International Space Station's gonna be a Trump hotel and casino soon, if you haven't already heard.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has no business investigating Equifax just because half of their customers' private data was stolen by hackers. Don't worry, Mulvaney will make sure Equifax persists. No worries, the CFPB is only a two day a week job. It's in the fine print.

The EPA. What can you say? There won't be any Superfund sites if there's no money to clean up the mess. See, problem solved! The EPA won't be able to afford to enforce any environmental regulations, so what's a little pollution if someone's just trying to make a few bucks? Stop coughing Spotted Owl, it's just the price of doing business.

Well, if we're going to increase spending on a military that's already the largest and most expensive in the world, who needs diplomacy? Guess we'll gut the State Department, too. Why talk when we have a bigger red button and can escalate another nuclear arms race?

The whole point is that if you're middle-class or poor, you better just get used to waiting for your trickle-down. Just because you weren't lucky enough, smart enough, or motivated enough to be rich is your own fault and you deserve what you get. It's not domestic neglect or abuse if you've been asking it for it, right? Complain, but no one will believe you.

Look, we all know this budget is a farce since Congress already passed a spending bill. But, the truth is that the budget shows what the President thinks is important. Hint: it's not you, in case you were wondering. However, there may be a few dollars left for a huge parade that you can watch if you behave.

Hmm, doesn't Trump's budget sound like domestic neglect and abuse? Maybe, but that's just a "mere allegation" until there are pictures to prove it.