No walls, no more bombs - we're on a budget until the children are fed

My parents always told me that you can see people's characters through how they spend their money. I think that specifically applies to governments and I'm embarrassed to see the current spending priorities of the current administration.

Trump wants $1.6B for a brick and mortar wall to be built over a few miles of the border with our ally and one of our top trading partners, yet wants to cut the budget for SNAP and farm crop subsidies. He ordered a missile strike of 59 Tomahawk missiles worth approximately $1M while raving over a piece of chocolate cake being enjoyed with the Chinese leader at his private Florida resort, an alternative to after dinner entertainment. (Take a look at his recounting of that event to a reporter where he is describing the piece of chocolate cake in detail, yet doesn't even remember that the missiles were striking Syria, not Iraq.) Shortly thereafter, our military dropped a MOAB, the "mother of all bombs" costing $16M on a remote area in Afghanistan, killing 36 people ($450,000 per person, if you are doing the math), but funds to assist struggling college students be able to afford an education, or forgiving part of their student loans if they work for government or a qualifying non-profit? That's gotta go. More military jets and ships? You betcha, more money for you. Funding for diplomacy, the job of the State Department? Who needs that? (see an overview of the reductions and additions proposed here). And let's not forget the obscene amount of money being spent to protect the Trump family live their lavish lifestyle without a thought for the expense to taxpayers. 

The big question here is where have our nation's values, our moral center, gone? Why is the current administration, and the GOP Congress, telling American citizens and the world about our priorities with the way money is being spent, and is proposed to be spent? 

Here's what I see. Budget cuts are aimed at segments of people who don't have the money for expensive lobbyists or PAC or Super PACs to use their vast resources to influence politicians. Go through the proposed budget, look yourself, and see who wins and who loses for each proposed cut and each proposed increase in funding. 

"The true measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members." - Mahatma Ghandi

How is America measuring up right now?