Trump budget: Guns get $54 billion; butter loses $54 billion

The peaceniks who thought Trump would be less warlike than Hawkish Hillary got a rude wakeup call when Trump proposed a 10% hike of $54 billion to the already bloated military, to be paid for by all the programs that truly make life better for Joe Sixpack. The EPA coughs up $2 billion, a cool quarter of its budget, guaranteeing we'll all be coughing more during the Trump era. Poverty programs, diplomats, IRS agents overseeing the games the one percenters play, education and science will all chip in so the munitions makers can gorge on obscene profits, and the hawks can fund more warfare. I remember the good ole' days half century ago when LBJ tried to do both guns and butter. Trump doesn't suffer such fools. His mantra: All guns, no butter.