Jim Morin for March 19, 2017

Is it possible there are enough Republicans to send that budget where the sun don’t shine?

http://www.gallup.com/poll/204782/americans-say-spends-little-defense.aspx?g_source=Politics&g_medium=newsfeed&g_campaign=tiles

^Also after school funding to feed kids has been cut. These guys are heartless.

“I love the underfed.”

But the world’s most expensive needs more money and billionaires need their tax cuts.

Everyone else should stop whining.

“Meals-on-Wheels” costs the federal government about the same as 1 Abrams tank…

Look up. Something may trickle down on you

“I live in a country with the greatest military in the history of the world; why can’t they protect me?”

Trump administration says that meals on wheels is not showing results! What do they expect, before and after pictures of people having something to eat vs not? Would they like to hear recordings of people with growling stomachs as a result of the cuts? Good lord!

Meals on Wheels does more than deliver food. It is a rare social contact people isolated by health, age issues & other factors need, food for the spirit!

Aw, who cares; I got my massive tax cut.

I think I’ll buy another yacht.

And now….a parable. There was a man who was very wealthy, but he was afraid people would steal his wealth. So he bought a large piece of land. On it he placed a large bank vault with the most modern electronic security measures. And he built a building of concrete and kevlar to house the vault. And he used high-tech video, temperature, and night-vision devices to safeguard the premises. And he built a triple electric fence around it, and also employed guard dogs.“And his face was very funny/as he counted all his money/and he realized he hadn’t any more.”This will be the end result of the melding of the Trump/Republican agenda. We are so concerned with being isolationist and militaristic that we won’t have anything worth protecting, and we won’t have any friends when we need them the most.Fortunately, I think there is no way Mr. Trump’s administration will last beyond 2018. Pick a reason; there are so many to choose from. If he is not impeached, he will declare victory and quit, just because of his frustration with the fact that not enough people love him. I think Mr. “I had absolutely no knowledge” Pence will not survive the purge, and therefore hope that the downfall takes until after the 2018 midterms so the next president would be named Pelosi. I am not a fan, but I shudder to think about a President Ryan.

Welcome back, I Play! Glad to see you here again.

I don’t think that Nancy Pelosi will be the Speaker at that point. She is already 76 and had been grooming van Hollen to take over (he ended up running for the Senate and winning), but there are other younger progressive Democratic House members that look promising. I also shudder to think of a President Ryan (or Pence—-or any of the current crop of possible Republicans.

“Ok, we got a new pipeline coming through here, you’ll have to move out of this shoe, lady.”

Hopefully the lot of his empowerers will be out in 2018, if they allow an election.

The Army already has twice as many tanks as it needs or can use, stores most of them. Davis Montham AFB houses our mothballed Air Force, including 1/2 the B-1s built, and many more surplus aircraft. We need MORE for State Dept and Peace activities like the UN, not more war tools the generals say “If we don’t intend to use them, why buy them?” And I say, on who?

She should feel safe, she probably voted for Trump because Clinton was under investigation. At least the rich will get a tax break. This is what the Republicans want for people who can’t get food on their own.