It just took us through the end of FY 18...which is Sept. 30 of this year.
The February 9th bill Trump signed was FOR Fiscal 2018
AND Fiscal 2019. To the tune of
716 B-B-BILLION dollars for 2019, up 16 B-B-BILLION from 2018's fiscal military spending budget.
The bill he signed supposedly takes us to the END OF FISCAL 2019.
So again, why hundreds of billions of more dollars we do not have, just six months after the 1.3 TRILLION Trump authorized on February 9th for two years?
Provide for the common defense is in the Constitution my friend.
With money borrowed from our great grandkids' future. We are bankrupting the Constitution.
If there is one thing the government DOES need to spend on it's defense.
YOU DO remember why the Soviet Union collapsed don't you?
There is no budgetary restraint in ANYTHING this government is spending. None.
Laws of economics my friend. It is hurtling down to assert itself upon our heads.
And for 12 years...all 8 years that Obama was in office and the last two years of Bush 43 that the Dems were in charge...the Liberals did their level best to break and tear down the military. They do that on purpose every time they are in office because they know they leave us in a vulnerable position in the world that their GOP successor will move to fix.
I do not dispute any of that. But debt spending across the board has gone up - and these Trillions we are spending on a fake credit card - will come due in horrific fashion.
Venezuela is a good example of what we may very well emulate sooner than later.
We've got threats coming at us and our allies from three different directions right now...and we're not in a position right now to fully engage any of them...and we need to do something quickly to change that.
And it's gonna take money.
We do not have any. We're in debt to HUNDREDS of TRILLIONS of dollars (counting unfunded mandates). You have a government outspending Obama on everything.
That bill is gonna come due one way or another. And we do not stand a chance to avoid the consequences we have already heaped upon ourselves.
So either we spend now and learn from historical lessons fo what happens when we drop our guard....or we repeat history...either way it's gonna be expensive.
We do not have it to spend now. We are charging it on a credit card so far over the limit - there is not enough wealth on the planet to cover it. Meanwhile spending for every other government program is up because the GOP had to placate the Democrats to fund their agenda to get them to sign on.
At some point, the laws of economics take over - and it will not matter how many missiles and bullets we have.