Trump Says Military More Important Than Balanced Budget

[struggle4progress]

JAN 26 2017, 10:40 PM ET
by ALEX JOHNSON

President Donald Trump said Thursday night that he is willing to subordinate balancing the federal budget in favor of strengthening the military, possibly putting him on a path to clashing with his own pick for budget director.

"Our military is more important to me than a balanced budget," the president declared in an interview with commentator Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel ...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/president-trump-says-military-more-important-balanced-budget-n712836

[struggle4progress]

1. Gorbachev: 'It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War'

Mikhail Gorbachev
Jan 26, 2017

... no problem is more urgent today than the militarization of politics and the new arms race. Stopping and reversing this ruinous race must be our top priority.

The current situation is too dangerous.

More troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers are being brought to Europe. NATO and Russian forces and weapons that used to be deployed at a distance are now placed closer to each other, as if to shoot point-blank.
While state budgets are struggling to fund people’s essential social needs, military spending is growing. Money is easily found for sophisticated weapons whose destructive power is comparable to that of the weapons of mass destruction; for submarines whose single salvo is capable of devastating half a continent; for missile defense systems that undermine strategic stability ...

http://time.com/4645442/gorbachev-putin-trump/

[democratisphere]

2. The budget hasn't been balanced in forever, so why not make it worse.

The military industrial complex is far more important than providing quality affordable healthcare to the citizens.

[randr]

3. Maybe he thinks the Nation can just declare bankruptcy

[underpants]

4. I'm sure Hannity nodded in agreement

[Achilleaze]

5. How would a freakin Republican Draft Dodger know ?

[UCmeNdc]

6. Republicans are now in charge. Now, all of a sudden, deficits do not matter.

Oh, here comes a democratic party president or congress, budgets and the deficit will suddenly matter.