There's a difference between proposing budget cuts to streamline and boost efficiency of government, and proposing budget cuts to destroy government entirely. Look, an additional $30 billion in cuts in discretionary spending isn't going to do anything for the budget deficit and the long term public debt. The budget deficit is $1.4 trillion. The US public debt is over $14 trillion. The Republicans are behaving as if an additional $30 billion in cuts is going to avert some kind of existential crisis. It's not. And the social costs of these additional cuts will be ENORMOUS.
You can't tell me that you're "investing in our future" and "for our children and our grandchildren" when you're cutting Planned Parenthood, the EPA, the Affordable Housing Program, Commission of Fine Arts, Consumer Product Safety Commission, food stamps, WIC, education, and every other social service and government agency designed for that purpose.
You can't tell me that you're "investing in our future" and "for our children and our grandchildren" when you're cutting Planned Parenthood, the EPA, the Affordable Housing Program, Commission of Fine Arts, Consumer Product Safety Commission, food stamps, WIC, education, and every other social service and government agency designed for that purpose.
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