The Abominable Trump Budget - Take Aways That Kill

I'll start with a quote, courtesy of Public Citizen:

“Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.”
Mike Pence said that in 2009 — long before he became Donald Trump’s vice president.

There is no way Trump's budget reflects the priorities and values of the majority.  Despite what Trump claims, the majority of American's who voted in 2016 voted for Hillary Clinton and the values she represents.

The Trump budget is a loser, a plan to shift money from domestic spending to building a border wall, amping up the military, and providing big tax breaks and other special treatment for millionaires and corporations.

The Boston Globe published a list of all the agencies and programs the Trump budget would cut: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/16/here-list-agencies-and-programs-trump-budget-would-defund-entirely/FU6eHGUMCBIketz8uPWDJJ/story.html

What could Trump (or whoever put this budget together) be thinking?  If enacted, this budget would throw America back to the bad old days.

• Did anyone total up the potential job losses?  
• The cost in lives of the elderly, sick, and disabled? 
• The number of malnourished children? 
• The number who will be without legal representation because they are poor? 
• The lost opportunities for education - formal and informal, such as visits to museums and libraries? 
• The financial losses from storms and other natural disasters? 
• The health costs of polluted air and water, and tainted meat and produce. 
• The increased potential for war when the capacity for diplomacy and aid to developing nations is damaged beyond repair?

I could go on, but will leave it to you to read the list at the link above, and study analyses of the impact. Nothing in Trump's budget will serve to "make America great again."  To the contrary, it will damage America's standing as a leader in the free world.

Add this budget to Trump's draconian immigration policies, failure to honor the Constitutional rights of all US citizens, and failure to condemn violence directed towards people because of their religion, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender presentation, etc, and you have a picture of a dis-United States of America headed for a steep decline.

We, the majority of Americans, cannot let this happen.  Let your Senators and Representatives know that you want them to call out this budget as the disaster it is, and tell them what your priorities - real American values - are.