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President Trump Calls for an Increase in Military Spending in First Budget
By Neil A. Carousso
The White House announced Monday morning that President Donald J. Trump’s upcoming budget will ask for a $54 billion increase in the defense budget.
“This will be a public safety and national security budget,” said President Trump at the National Governors Association Meeting at the White House. “It will include a historic increase in defense spending to rebuild the depleted military of the United States of America at a time when we most need it.”
Currently, half of the U.S. Navy F-18 Hornets cannot take to the skies, and up to 75 percent of U.S. Marine Corps jets are grounded.
About half of United States Air Force B-1 bombers are out-of-service as it awaits spare parts. Many U.S. military jets have flown well past its expected lives. There is a shortage of spare parts and manufacturers do not make many of the military’s parts necessities.
On January 27, 2017, President Donald Trump, left, listens as Defense Secretary James Mattis, right, speaks at The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) President Trump has vowed to update the military’s dilapidated equipment, much to the appreciation of military brass who have been sounding the alarm under the Obama Administration and drafting expansion plans that would best serve the country’s defense needs.
The Commander-In-Chief has also promised to end the defense sequester, a provision of the Budget Control Act of 2011 that “imposes across-the-board spending cuts if Congress and The White House cannot agree on more targeted cuts aimed at reducing the budget deficit,” according to the U.S. Department of Defense. The DOD and military leaders said last March that “sequestration poses the biggest threat to readiness.”President Barack Obama proposed a $582.7 billion budget in February 2016. The defense budget is currently about $610 billion which is not nearly enough with depleted military equipment and rising daily threats of radical Islamic terrorism and other domestic terror threats, according to military personnel.
The new leadership at The Pentagon under President Trump’s DOD Secretary General James Mattis issued budget guidance earlier this month with three major points to accomplish: improving “warfighting readiness, to achieve program balance by addressing shortfalls, and to build ‘a larger, more capable, and more lethal joint force.'” The Commander-In-Chief has echoed President Ronald Reagan’s mantra of “peace through strength.”
Featured Image: Getty Images.
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“The Real Deal with Neil:” The Future of the Globalist Left is Not the Future of Your Country
In “The Real Deal with Neil” segment on “The Neil A. Carousso Show,” Neil hammers the political left for not listening to the hard-working American people who decidedly voted the Democrats out of power since former President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK9fwUcHUIw
The “divided and powerless” Democratic Party is clinging to the old establishment wing of the party with Tom Perez, former Obama labor secretary, being elected by the Dems on Saturday to head the Democratic National Committee. Keith Ellison, widely accused as being an anti-semite, by members of his own party and others, who has accepted money and trips from terrorist-funded organizations, will be the deputy DNC char.
The DNC is attempting to recover after former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resigned this summer after a WikiLeaks email dump revealed that she and the DNC leadership sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ campaign in favor of candidate Hillary Clinton.
Lastly, Isaac Chotiner writes a deplorable Slate obituary about a late friend, Alan Colmes. Chotiner calls Colmes a “buffoon” and “patsy,” in an obituary remembering the late liberal commentator who passed away at the age of 66 last week. The Slate writer slanders Colmes’ long-time friend and original television partner, conservative talk show host Sean Hannity, and what Chotiner deemed to be a more conservative slanted program, despite having both liberal and conservative co-hosts on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes, as being a vehicle to disseminate “racist or homophobic or Islamophobic ways” – a typical liberal false smear of Republicans. Neil comments on all of this on the “Real Deal with Neil” segment above.
“The Real Deal with Neil” is the final segment on the weekly live streaming program where Neil picks a topic and expounds upon it with insight and well-informed, bold analysis in a straight-forward, “tell it the way it is” manner.
“The Neil A. Carousso Show” airs live on Sundays at 12 Noon ET/9 AM PT on YouTube and NeilACarousso.com.
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Making a Difference: 21-year-old Autistic Man Runs Atlanta’s Alternative Baseball Organization for Autistic Teen Athletes Who are Overcoming Disadvantages
On Sunday’s “The Neil A. Carousso Show,” 21-year-old Atlanta, Georgia resident Taylor Duncan joined the program to discuss how he is making a difference in his community, overcoming adversity and encouraging other autistic people to work hard and earn success despite their disadvantages.
Featured Image Courtesy: Taylor Duncan, Founder of Alternative Baseball Organization.
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“Carousso’s Comments:” Truly Putting America and Americans First
In the “Carousso’s Comments” monologue on “The Neil A. Carousso Show,” Neil emphasizes what it means to truly put America and its citizens first. Watch the segment below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iPcEHHdIDk
Later in the show, Neil discussed the “common sense” Trump economic agenda and sends a message to all those who think they are “entitled” to economic success. Watch the segment below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRWbQUr78iw
Neil’s Show Notes for “Carousso’s Comments” that Aired Sunday, February 26, 2017 on “The Neil A. Carousso Show:”
CAROUSSO’S COMMENTS (MONOLOGUE)
TRULY PUTTING AMERICA & AMERICANS FIRST
SOT: TRUMP AT CPAC FRIDAY
FS:
DHS MEMOS
TRUMP CONTRACT
- PROTECTING OUR HOMELAND
- KEEPING MORE MONEY IN YOUR WALLET
- CHOICE OF HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION & COMPETITIVE WORK
- BETTER HEALTHCARE, BETTER EDUCATION, BETTER WORK
- BUDGET
- REDUCING SPENDING (“National Debt in TRUMP first month went down by $12 billion vs a $200 billion increase in OBAMA first month.”
- REDUCING BUREAUCRACY ($125 B WASTED ADMIN AT THE PENTAGON, WHO PLAYS WITH BARBIES, PARTYING HABITS, NONSENSE STUDIES)
- EASING TAXPAYER BURDENS ON WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
- SUPPORTING & PROVIDING NECESSARY RESOURCES TO THOSE WHO PROTECT US AT HOME AND ABROAD OVER THOSE WHO ARE NOT CITIZENS
- VETS GROUP: SUPPORT VETS BEFORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
- DRAINING THE SWAMP OF THOSE WHO HAVE OTHER INTENTIONS AND AGENDAS
- TUESDAY JOINT-SESSION OF CONGRESS
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Trump Touts “Big League Jobs” in Meeting with Manufacturing Industry Leaders
By Neil A. Carousso
At The White House on Thursday morning, President Donald J. Trump met with two dozen manufacturing leaders including the heads of Dell, Ford, General Electric, Emerson Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Carrier and Lockheed Martin discussing action plans to create and bring-back millions of American jobs and implement his pro-business policies that will create better working environments, higher wages and economic stability.
Vice President Mike Pence, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross along with Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner and his wife, Mr. Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump also attended the “listening session.”
“Bringing manufacturing and creating high wage jobs was one of our campaign themes,” President Trump said, noting that 70,000 factories had closed since President George W Bush’s presidency.
“I always thought it had to be a typo, said Trump, continuing, “Everything is going to be based on bringing our jobs back.”
Trade is also a major topic on the forefront of the Trump agenda in terms of renegotiation. The President said the U.S. has $70 billion in trade deficits.“I said to my people to find a country where we actually do well. So far we haven’t found a country,” remarked President Trump.
The White House also hosted “small working group sessions to discuss the need to boost job creation in America.”
We hosted some of the country’s largest manufacturers for small working group sessions to discuss the need to boost job creation in America. pic.twitter.com/t1xHFwCXir
— Vice President Mike Pence Archived (@VP45) February 23, 2017
Manufacturing, as a percentage of private sector jobs, has decreased 17.1% in the last 40 years as the result of automation and outsourcing in response to high taxes and increased regulations and government red tape.A reminder of the “Trump Effect:” Roughly $62.7 billion has been invested in the U.S. with about 1,816,700 American jobs created and saved since President Donald J. Trump was elected in November.
Here is an updated list of the “big league jobs” announced since Mr. Trump’s election that we’ve been tracking since November 8, 2016:
1. Carrier: Keeping 1,100 American jobs instead of sending to Mexico
2. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son: Investing $50 billion to create 50,000 American jobs
3. Sprint: Bringing back 5,000 jobs to the U.S. that were sent overseas
4. OneWeb (new company): Creating 3,000 jobs in the U.S. (associated with Son’s guarantee)
5. Ford: Cancels $1.6 billion plant in Mexico, saving 3,500 American jobs. Creating new innovative center as an expansion of its Flat Rock, MI plant by investing $700 million in the U.S. and creating 700 American jobs
6. Qualcomm and Apple will invest in SoftBank’s new technology fund, SoftBank Vision Fund that is being used to create 50,000 American jobs.
7. Fiat Chrysler announces it would spend $1 billion on U.S. manufacturing, including modernizing plants in Michigan and Ohio, adding 2,000 new American jobs.
8.. Toyota will spend $10 billion in U.S. capital investments and will expand its U.S. plants over the next five years.
9. Alibaba Chief Executive Jack Ma met with Trump to discuss the creation of 1 million American jobs, specifically focusing on small business growth.
10. Amazon will create 100,000 jobs in the first year and a half of the Trump Presidency.
11. Wal-Mart will create 10,000 jobs in the U.S. this year.
12. General Motors will invest $1 billion in its U.S. factories this year, moving some parts of production from Mexico to the United States that was previously handled by a supplier.
13. Toyota will add 400 American jobs to build more SUVs at an Indiana assembly plant.
14. Amgen will add 1,600 jobs.
15. Intel will invest $7 billion in innovation in an Arizona factory, creating 3,000 specialist positions and 10,000 support jobs.
16. Delta announces it will hire 25,000 jobs over the next 5 years.
17. Lockheed Martin will create 1,800 new jobs.Attendees at The White House Hosted Manufacturing Sessions:
President Trump noted that the CEOs in the room represented $1 trillion in sales and employed 2 million people and a lot of the companies in the room, like Lockheed Martin which produces fighter jets, produced products for the U.S. Military.
Vice President Mike Pence
Secretary Steven Mnuchin
Secretary Wilbur Ross
Secretary Elaine Chao
Administrator Linda Mcmahon
Director Mick Mulvaney
Gary Cohn
Stephen Miller
Jared Kushner
Ivanka Trump
Chris Liddell
George Sifakis
Reed Cordish
Andrew Bremberg
Gary Cohn
Joshua Pitcock
Ray Washburne
Stephen Munisteri
Mark Calabria
Henry Gindt
Shahira Knight
DJ GribbinMichael Dell, Dell Technologies
Andrew Liveris, Dow Chemical Company
Mark Sutton, International Paper
Gregory Hayes, United Technologies
Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson
Keith Leimbach, LiveOps
Wendell Weeks, Corning
Jeff Fettig, Whirlpool
David Farr, Emerson Electric
James Kamsickas, Dana, Inc.
John Ferriola, Nucor Corporation
Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company
Jeffrey Immelt, GE
Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup Company
Kenneth Frazier, Merck & Co., Inc
Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin Corp
Doug Oberhelman, Caterpillar
Inge Thulin, 3M
Mario Longhi, U.S. Steel
Don Althoff, Veresen, Inc.
Lee Styslinger, Altec, Inc.
Juan Luciano, ADM
Phebe Novakovik, General Dynamics
William Bill Brown, Harris CorporationFeatured Image Courtesy: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
