You always hear conservatives rant about cutting government spending. One thing you'll never see them actually do, is try to cut spending on the single largest drain on our budget: Defense.
NF Airbase got it's funding, for another year. Call me nuts, but I don't think Canada is going to invade the US anytime soon. There really is no good reason to keep an airbase open here.
If funding gets cut, will it gut jobs? Sure. But that's the rub when you cut government funding: Jobs get cut. Would WNY recover from the 800 jobs lost? Sure, just like we recovered when many businesses decided to ship their manufacturing jobs overseas. But, whenever that happens, it's lauded by those on the right as "Smart Capitalism". When it's done by the government to defense jobs, it's called "Being weak".
Give me a break. If conservatives were truly serious about cutting funding, they'd never would have voted to pass the funding bill for NF Airbase. What it does demonstrate is the true reason for their rants: They want to shift more dollars from the lower and middle class, into the pockets of the upper class. Cut welfare spending, and then cut taxes for the upper 1%. Cut infrastructure spending, and then cut taxes on the upper 1%.
It's merely a shell game for them. And they use emotional rhetoric to convince people to vote against their own best interests. Hopefully, the voters have woken up this time around.
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