President's Trump's desire to parade America's military might is just that so far, a desire, but if it does come around to reality there's a possibility the National Park Service could be tapped to help pay for it.
During a House Budget Committee hearing this week administration officials guesstimated that such a parade could cost upwards of $30 million.
Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, told committee members that, if the administration decides to stage the parade, "you’d have to appropriate funds for it or we would have to find funds that we’ve already appropriated.”
According to The New York Times, a former staff member on the House and Senate budget committees said funding for the parade could be found without a formal budget request by using existing money already in the Department of Defense budget or possibly from the Department of Homeland Security or the National Park Service (emphasis added).
National Park Service staff in Washington did not immediately reply to a question of whether the agency, already struggling with an $11.6 billion maintenance backlog, had surplus funds that could be used to help pay for the parade.
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Here ya go. I'm going to give you pennies, instead of the dollars you need. And, oopsie, I'm also going to take a bunch of them back to feed my own insecurities and vanities.
So now American taxpayers are going to tagged to pay for an ego-driven military parade for Trump?
Let's see. Who else around the world uses massive military parades to pump up their bases?
Vladimir Putin?
Kim Jong Un?
and now Donald Trump?
Excuse me while I go barf.
This might make you feel a bit better, Lee:
"WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The Pentagon has turned down Donald J. Trump’s request for a grand military parade in Washington, D.C., citing a sudden outbreak of bone spurs that would prevent men and women in uniform from participating.
Harland Dorrinson, a Pentagon spokesman, said that, within an hour of Trump’s request, more than a hundred thousand military personnel complained that they were suffering from acute cases of bone spurs that would make marching in such a parade a painful ordeal.
“In the history of the U.S. military, we have never experienced a bone-spur epidemic of this magnitude,” the spokesman said. “Regrettably, however, we have no choice but to issue thousands of deferments.”
A statement from the bone-spur sufferers said that they would continue to valiantly serve their country around the world in a non-marching capacity, and offered an alternative to their participation in Trump’s proposed pageant.
“President Trump is welcome to march in the parade all by himself if he would finally like to enlist,” the statement read."
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/military-refuses-to-part...
Thank you, tahoma. I do feel a lot better now.
The world needs some humor. Especially on a day like today.
Borowitz is always humorous, and generally manages to hit close enough to being truth to pinch your toes.
Trump should march in any such parade, to show his solidarity with our military. That way, he wouldn't look like all those other tinhorn dictators, who stand and salute as their puppet soldiers march by. He could wear his old military reform school uniform, except that it wouldn't fit anymore. So, maybe the full-time WH stylist who does Kelly Ann's and Huckabeast's hair could design a special military uniform for him, with lots of epauletts and unearned medals.