{"id":1123,"date":"2017-05-28T20:08:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T00:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jparnell.com\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2017-05-28T20:08:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T00:08:46","slug":"president-trump-the-baby-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"President Trump, the baby killer…"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump\u2019s proposed budget has been released and the left is already attacking it for the \u201cdeep cuts\u201d it makes to social programs. In reality, the budget does not<\/em> reduce social spending, but rather proposes a 10-year rate of growth slightly lower than the current projections. In the socialist lexicon, any attempt to rein in costs is a \u201cdeep\u201d or \u201cdraconian\u201d cut. This is politics and to be expected.<\/p>\n

But some on the left aren\u2019t stopping there. NYC major De Blasio claims children will die if Trump\u2019s cuts to children\u2019s health programs are enacted. This isn\u2019t the first time such charges have been launched at Republicans, but it\u2019s still shameful discourse. It\u2019s tempting to laugh and move on, but this argument can easily be turned on the Democrats.<\/p>\n

Their reasoning is simple: Spending \u201cless\u201d on government healthcare for children means that some will die because they won\u2019t get the care they need. The evidence for this is debatable at best, but let\u2019s take it at face value. If spending less would kill kids, then wouldn\u2019t spending more save some who are currently dying from a lack of care? If no, then the current, arbitrary level of spending must be the perfect amount, benefitting all children and harming none. Few if any would make this claim, as there\u2019s simply no way to verify this.<\/p>\n

Most progressives would respond with a resounding YES, but herein lies the intellectual dishonesty. Since current spending levels were endorsed by President Obama, then he must have also killed kids by not spending even more. Perhaps Obama \u201cdid the best he could\u201d in negotiations with a Republican Congress, but the current level of spending on children\u2019s health programs is higher<\/em> than what Democrats endorsed when they controlled both the House and Senate in 2008 and 2009. That lower amount didn\u2019t seem to kill any kids then. If their argument today is accurate, then we must also indict Democrats for supporting substandard spending in the past.<\/p>\n

Of course, progressives always want to spend more on social programs, claiming that people will starve or die if their demands are not met. The current level\u2014if previously endorsed by the left\u2014is always the bare minimum, just enough to keep from doing harm. Even when they get the increase they want, progressives refer to the expansion as a mere \u201cmove in the right direction.\u201d While some progressives attempt to debate the issue in a reasonable fashion, those like De Blasio who resort to scare tactics and hyperbole are appealing to ignorance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump\u2019s proposed budget has been released and the left is already attacking it for the \u201cdeep cuts\u201d it makes to social programs. In reality, the budget does not reduce social spending, but rather proposes a 10-year rate of growth slightly lower than the current projections. In the socialist lexicon, any attempt to rein in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}