Trump’s Budget

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Personally, I’d rather have cancer research than space exploration. I’m going to venture, mine is a majority opinion.

But, mAGA, care to weigh in?

I suspect you are in the majority!

I get the reasons for space research, and we should pursue it. But life on earth -- addressing cancer *and* protecting our natural environment -- is by far the priority.

Why would anyone ever want to set up colonies or whatever on Mars? If a barren, dusty, planet where a human can never go outside of the pod seems more appealing than Earth, then we have really, really screwed up here.

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Anonymous wrote:Just look at the budget before covid and how it has ballooned. Time for some reality in .gov spending.

Don't like it? Too bad.

So why not just reduce it to pre-COVID levels? Why the cuts to the Veterans Administration and their hospitals as well as rural hospitals?

They have cut the VA! My friend just spent a week in the ICU at the VA. Family had to bring toilet paper to use. No one was there to restock and clean. It was a mess. Most doctors were RIF’ed. After a week in ICU, the hospital administrator overseeing care couldn’t diagnose the problem. Too bad to the vets! If they want decent care, go see a private doctor.

Trump wants Vets to be able to go where they want because VA has been horrible

But vets don't actually want that. They don't want to go anywhere to any doctor, they want to go to the VA where doctors are familiar with vets and their issues. Vets want to go to a good VA, not to any doctor.

+1. Good luck getting good treatment on private insurance. 5 minute physical that gets billed as a “problem” visit the second you start talking about the ringing in your ears and has you leaving with a stack of referrals for specialists whose first appointment is six months from now. That’s what medicine is for the common folk these days. People who want better need to pony up for concierge.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Personally, I’d rather have cancer research than space exploration. I’m going to venture, mine is a majority opinion.

But, mAGA, care to weigh in?

I suspect you are in the majority!

I get the reasons for space research, and we should pursue it. But life on earth -- addressing cancer *and* protecting our natural environment -- is by far the priority.

Why would anyone ever want to set up colonies or whatever on Mars? If a barren, dusty, planet where a human can never go outside of the pod seems more appealing than Earth, then we have really, really screwed up here.

That's Elon Musk and Bezos former liberals. I don't think that is a Maga thing. We have plenty of better options here like Antartica and the Sea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Personally, I’d rather have cancer research than space exploration. I’m going to venture, mine is a majority opinion.

But, mAGA, care to weigh in?

I suspect you are in the majority!

I get the reasons for space research, and we should pursue it. But life on earth -- addressing cancer *and* protecting our natural environment -- is by far the priority.

Why would anyone ever want to set up colonies or whatever on Mars? If a barren, dusty, planet where a human can never go outside of the pod seems more appealing than Earth, then we have really, really screwed up here.

That's Elon Musk and Bezos former liberals. I don't think that is a Maga thing. We have plenty of better options here like Antartica and the Sea.

Musk is MAGA.

But anyhow, why hasn't it dawned on him that if he thinks we can terraform, green and colonize Mars, shouldn't we first be working to fix earth right here, for far less money?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Personally, I’d rather have cancer research than space exploration. I’m going to venture, mine is a majority opinion.

But, mAGA, care to weigh in?

I suspect you are in the majority!

I get the reasons for space research, and we should pursue it. But life on earth -- addressing cancer *and* protecting our natural environment -- is by far the priority.

Why would anyone ever want to set up colonies or whatever on Mars? If a barren, dusty, planet where a human can never go outside of the pod seems more appealing than Earth, then we have really, really screwed up here.

That's Elon Musk and Bezos former liberals. I don't think that is a Maga thing. We have plenty of better options here like Antartica and the Sea.

Musk is MAGA.

But anyhow, why hasn't it dawned on him that if he thinks we can terraform, green and colonize Mars, shouldn't we first be working to fix earth right here, for far less money?

You’re missing the point. He wants to colonize mars with the musk race. Why do you think he’s going around impregnating anyone who would have his offspring? Here on earth he will use every last of resources and make it unlivable for the rest of humanity.

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Anonymous wrote:Just look at the budget before covid and how it has ballooned. Time for some reality in .gov spending.

Don't like it? Too bad.

The ballooned spending meant avoiding a recessions while also growing the GDP and actually investing in US infrastructure. There is a way to deal with the debt and deficit spending without completely crating the small percentage of money that actually goes to out clean air and water, clean food and milk, cancer research and the arts.

This. The problem is real, but the 'solutions' are BS. The problem is being exploited as a justification for cuts sought out of ideology, grievance, or retribution.

People who are getting funds cut will say anything. I didn't hear anyone complaining about Biden's cuts, oh wait he didn't make any.

Right, because economists and history show us that you spend your way out of economic catastrophe, which is why the US economy was the envy of the world when Biden left office. So what is happening now? Elon gets more money from NASA and USDOT while poor kids in the midwest, south and Appalachia go without doctors or medicine.

The other side of that Keynesian prescription is to cut the extra spending when things are good.