- 03 Sep 2018 17:23
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President Trump rarely misses a chance to offer himself up as the champion of “forgotten” Americans, men and women who feel ignored or derided by elites and believe, as he frequently says, that the “system is rigged” against them.
He has said: “You will never be ignored again.”
Let us follow the $ to the truth.
In a Labor Day letter to congressional leaders, Mr. Trump said the government would forgo an automatic 2.1 percent pay increase for federal workers scheduled for Jan. 1 and specified that there would be no across-the-board increase for 2019. The letter did not estimate the overall savings from canceling the raises, though it said a related move canceling raises that are based on the workers’ location would save $25 billion.
“We must maintain efforts to put our nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases,” the president wrote.
The estimated $1,800,000,000,000 increase to the federal deficit resulting from recently passed "Tax cuts and jobs act" was apparently deemed sustainable. Approximately 80% of this amount will flow to the top 1% …………. those with an annual income over $730,000.
Next to come will undoubtedly be efforts to reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits.... in the interests of "sustainability".
No offense to Trump Zombies but WTF more evidence do you need to demonstrate Donald's true allegiance to his plutocratic buddies while giving it to "forgotten" Americans up the ass. It really does seem to help Trump supporters to be a little on the dumb side.
He has said: “You will never be ignored again.”
Let us follow the $ to the truth.
In a Labor Day letter to congressional leaders, Mr. Trump said the government would forgo an automatic 2.1 percent pay increase for federal workers scheduled for Jan. 1 and specified that there would be no across-the-board increase for 2019. The letter did not estimate the overall savings from canceling the raises, though it said a related move canceling raises that are based on the workers’ location would save $25 billion.
“We must maintain efforts to put our nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases,” the president wrote.
The estimated $1,800,000,000,000 increase to the federal deficit resulting from recently passed "Tax cuts and jobs act" was apparently deemed sustainable. Approximately 80% of this amount will flow to the top 1% …………. those with an annual income over $730,000.
Next to come will undoubtedly be efforts to reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits.... in the interests of "sustainability".
No offense to Trump Zombies but WTF more evidence do you need to demonstrate Donald's true allegiance to his plutocratic buddies while giving it to "forgotten" Americans up the ass. It really does seem to help Trump supporters to be a little on the dumb side.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897