Yeah, wasn't @BLeeForCongress calling for way more?

Do people know that Republicans just over turned the Dobb frank rule that stop banks from spending money they don't have. Didn't that almost Bankrupt the United States. But they don't want to help out Americans.

Why are establishment Democrats voting to increase the budget?

I suspect 10% could be saved without any actual reductions simply by way of greater * oversight * waste cutting * elimination of over-priced purchases & contracts.

It's revolutionary he talks about this. Everyone -- even dems as @ewarren etc. always signed OK with these budgets. @BernieSanders is bold on the issue and talking about #USA being in despair.

I’m with you Maryanne, but probably because ten percent makes us all instant billionaires

Because based on European standards Bernie is center right.

Another 10% for med4all, another 10% for free college, another 10% for green new deal, 10% for ubi

And ‽istis wonders how different the world might be if a fraction of the cost of a bomb smartly targeted on a specific area and people was spent on health, education, community projects, infrastructure, peace and capacity-building in that self same area. pistisrec.blogspot.com/2019/…

But ‽istis cowered, flinched, hid and wept at the relative cost of keeping the peace: UN Global Peacekeeping budget: $6.5bn in 2019, perhaps less than half of one per cent of world military expenditures (estimated at $1,747bn in 2013) From Oct 19 blog: pistisrec.blogspot.com/2019/…