Is Trump Ready for the Great 'American Spring' Offensive?

All the fake news, Russian insinuations, ***** hat marches and troll templates have been strategically pre-positioned. Even former President Barack Obama has set up a command centre in the disproportionately white Kalorama neighborhood in Washington DC in order to lead a promised rebellion of oppressed minorities against his duly-elected successor. Ironically, Ivanka Trump will be his neighbour. Did anyone expect the Obamas to reside among Blacks and Latin Americans who together make up 60% of Washington DC’s population?


The mutineers may not want a full-scale offensive yet; not with Dow Jones breaching the historic 21,000 mark after Trump’s recent speech before the US Congress. Is Obama willing to take down the Democrat party and the US economy down with him? His psyche profile and past actions says “yes” but his compatriots – with lots to lose – may plead “not yet” and bide their time. George Soros may still need time to recoup $1 billion by hedging on the "Trump bump".


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It's been what - not even 2 months... I'm divesting my stocks. Market will head back to the GW day levels, as results start to emerge. University enrollment of foreigners will be way down, due to bigotry in US, affecting economy. Small multinational corporations will move out of the country, because they rely on an American and International work-force. Other "job creation" schemes will fail miserably.

Wealthy will get wealthier, at the expense of the Middle class, who will see the price of staples such as produce, rise in cost substantially. Health care will be a disaster, which will also hit the market. Obama will have nothing to do with it, but I guess the "Right" rag, Sputnik is already setting him up as a scapegoat, when the **** hits the fan.

 

I think it is the US bipartisan oligarchy that wants Trump to take the fall. All the conspiracy theories against Trump are hatched up by US politicians and the US media.

 

And the NSA, CIA, and FBI.

 

Seems like the "American Spring" is slam-dunk. The preparations were made weeks back, possibly from Nov 9 onwards. According to ThinkProgress: This spring, America is going on strike against Trump

Anti-Trump sentiment has generated calls for one of the most difficult mass demonstrations: the general strike.

 

I wouldn't put much credence in what Sputnik news or Think Progress reports, this "American Spring" will come to nothing.

 

Well, Trump has a hell of a budget for revamping the size and scope of the US government that clearly has lost sight of the fact that they serve us, at our pleasure:

Trump budget expected to seek historic contraction of federal workforce

President Trump’s budget proposal this week would shake the federal government to its core, culling back numerous programs and expediting a historic contraction of the federal workforce.

This would be the first time the government has executed cuts of this magnitude — and all at once — since the drawdown following World War II.

The president sees a new Washington emerging from the budget process, one that prioritizes the military and homeland security while slashing many other areas, including housing, foreign assistance, environmental programs, public broadcasting and research. The government would be smaller and less involved in regulating life in America, with states playing a much bigger role.

The cuts Trump plans to propose this week will lead to layoffs among federal workers.

“We have no alternative but to reinvest in our military and make ourselves a military power once again,” National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn said.

“If you’re doing that in an area where you have to balance the budget and you cannot create a further deficit, you have to make cuts. It’s no different than every other family in America that has to make the tough decisions when they need to spend money somewhere, they have to cut it from somewhere else.”

The federal government is projected to spend $4.091 trillion next year, with roughly two-thirds of that going mostly toward Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, poverty assistance and interest payments on the government debt. This spending is expected to be left untouched in the budget proposal next week.

What Trump will propose changing is the rest of the budget, known as discretionary spending, which is authorized each year by Congress. Slightly more than half of this remaining money goes to the military, and the rest is spread across agencies that operate things like education, diplomacy, housing, transportation and law enforcement.

Trump proposes an increase in military spending of $54 billion, more money to start building a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico, and the creation of new initiatives that expand access to charter schools and other educational programs.

To offset that new money, Trump will propose steep cuts across numerous other agencies. His advisers have considered cutting the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s budget by $6 billion.

Trump advisers have looked at cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s staff by about 20 percent and tightening the Commerce Department’s budget by about 18 percent.

Trump believes the federal workforce is too big, and that the federal government spends — and wastes — too much money. Washington — the federal workers and contractors, among others — have benefited from government largesse while many other Americans have suffered. Federal spending crowds out the private sector and piles regulations and bureaucracy onto companies.

Trump will lead a deconstruction of the administrative state. Obama loyalists have burrowed into government. Trump said the government would have to “do more with less.”

Trump’s proposal doesn't touch Social Security and Medicare benefits. Cost cutting is needed to meet the expected rise in borrowing rates and the growing national debt are expected to push interest payments on the debt from $270 billion this year to $768 billion in 2027, outpacing any growth in tax revenue.

The spending cuts Trump will propose Thursday will not impact any of these spending trajectories.

“It is his vision for the administration of the government,” said Doug Holtz-Eakin, another former CBO director. “But the big government that everyone decries,” he said, is in other programs that Trump is not proposing to cut.

There are roughly 2.8 million federal employees a number roughly flat over the past 20 years. 34 percent of the federal employees who are not in the military will qualify for full retirement benefits in 2020.

During the Obama administration, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and other initiatives pushed federal spending to $3.5 trillion in 2010 and $3.6 trillion in 2011. Those annual spending levels, combined with a weak economic recovery, amounted to 23.5 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, the largest percentage since 1946.

When stimulus funds ended, the Obama administration and Congress agreed to install new budget caps and other spending waned. In 2017, spending as a share of GDP is expected to be 20.7 percent, more in line with historical trends.

Democrats have insisted that they will only agree to increases in defense spending if other parts of the budget are increased as well.

“The notion of bulking up defense but slashing everything else, that’s not going to find any votes on the Democratic side,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said.

Former White House officials from both parties agree that the changes Trump proposes would dramatically change how the federal government functions and its role in American society.

Mick Mulvaney, head of the Office of Management and Budget, said it is important for the administration to change how Washington thinks.

“We don’t solve problems by simply throwing money at them,” he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...739206-05be-11e7-b9fa-ed727b644a0b_story.html

 

But another republican dumb@ss president, dick Cheney, told us "deficits don't matter." Is the Orange Clown saying cheney was a liar? Can ANY republicans ever be believed?

And the only Spring I'd like to see, involves having Putin's Boy-Toy Springing in front of a freight train.