NYT Discovers Trump Risks Damaging Safety Net, Not War Machine
The supposed 'lasting damage to the safety net' from food stamp cuts is indeed concerning. But it’s a familiar playbook: meticulously cost-saving on the poor while uncritically greenlighting a near-trillion-dollar military budget. Remember when Senator Menendez, fresh off corruption charges for allegedly taking bribes tied to Egypt, still voted for billions in foreign aid, including to Israel via
HR 815? Funny how those appropriations, often tied to lobbying from groups like AIPAC, never seem to 'risk lasting damage' to our national conscience, let alone our budget. (OpenSecrets shows AIPAC spent $4.2M in lobbying just in 2023, while showering politicians with donations.) It makes you wonder: Is 'damage to the safety net' only newsworthy when it affects Americans, but not when it's funding
cluster bombs and 500lb munitions that decimate civilian infrastructure abroad? Apparently, starving children domestically is a crisis, but financing the starvation and destruction of children overseas is just 'foreign policy.' Priorities, darling, priorities.