Tag Archives: defense spending

Empowering the elderly by cutting Meals on Wheels… The compassion of the Trump budget

By Mark | March 16, 2017

As promised, Trump unveiled his budget today, and I think it’s safe to say that it was far worse than most of us imagined. The President’s budget, if passed into law, would, among other things, cut the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency by 30%, completely eliminating 50 programs and 3,200 positions, and entirely cut […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alison Foreman, budget cuts, CNN, Community Block Grants, compassion, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, cruelty, Donald Trump, elder care, elderly, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal budget, Jake Tapper, Meals on Wheels, Mick Mulvaney, military spending, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NEA | 29 Comments

The time to revolt draws near, my friends….

By Mark | July 10, 2011

On Friday, it was announced that the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to support a $649 billion defense spending bill. According to the Associated Press, this represents a $17 billion increase over last year’s appropriation. This, as the AP article points out, is particularly noteworthy, given that drastic government cuts are being demanded elsewhere. […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2012 federal budget, A National Strategic Narrative, Bill Maher, budget, budget cuts, budget deficit, Bush tax cuts, class warfare, compromise, debt ceiling, entitlements, Ezra Klein, grand bargain, Joint Economic Committee, Mark Mykleby, Medicaid, Medicare, military industrial complex, military spending, Mitch McConnell, Mr. Y, Obama, Paul Revere, priorities, Robert Pear, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich, theology of tax cuts, unemployment, Wayne Porter | 52 Comments

Write to Eric Cantor and tell him to put military cuts on the table

By Mark | November 7, 2010

Eric Cantor, the Republican Whip for the 111th Congress, came out today and said that the GOP would not compromise on extending the Bush tax cuts for the super-wealthy. And, it may not surprise you to know, he didn’t share how exactly we’d be able to pay for them. He did, however, launch a new […]

Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged 111th Congress, Bush tax cuts, Eric Cantor, military spending, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, Virginia, Whip, YouCut | 6 Comments

Congressional support for cutting the military budget is beginning to come together

By Mark | October 13, 2010

Continuing our conversation of a few days ago about cutting the military budget, I just heard that Barney Frank and Ron Paul, along with 55 congressional co-signers sent a letter this evening to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform calling for significant defense cuts. Here’s a clip from the letter: …The Department of […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics | Also tagged Alan Grayson, Barney Frank, Cold War, Dennis Kucinich, Department of Defense, John Conyers, John Dingell, military, military budget, military spending, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Ron Paul, Sharia law | 3 Comments

Why not cut the military budget?

By Mark | October 6, 2010

Fiscal responsibility seems to be all the rage these days. Or, at least that’s what Tea Partiers claim to be motivated by, right? They tell us that it’s high time that we get serious, tighten our belts, and cut “big government” to the bone, before the inevitable happens, and the country goes careening over the […]