If Economy is so great, why is so much being cut?

Because the debt is so ludicrously high that we're are about to implode.

When the premise of a meme is so completely ignorant, that it's almost impossible to reply in context, with any hope that the OP can even comprehend simple logic...

So your plan, SuziMcK1957, would be to continue to spend money we don't have?

Does that work for your home budget?

Well, what if you received a nice raise last year? Does that mean you should keep spending money you don't have?

I suppose you have a mountain of credit card debt, but figure there's no need to cut your spending, since you spend money you DON'T HAVE on so many important things, right?

You did not understand this correctly.

Then educate me, please.

Seriously.

I'm not one of the types here on the flip who won't listen to people, so if you can explain why we should keep spending more money than we have, I'm ready to hear it.

For a bit of info regarding one of the items that I have experience in - Education is incredibly wasteful.

I worked for an ISD in technology, and they struggled to find things to spend all of their allocated funding on. One year, to cover a surplus (several thousand dollars), they bought everyone in my department external drives. Another year, they bought everyone two tablets for "evaluation". Most of the technology went unused, and at the end of the year employees had the option to purchase each item for $1. The purpose was to spend all of the allocated funds so they could justify receiving the same amount the next year, and ask for a little more.

I won't lie, I bought a few laptops and other tech. It was a great gig until someone higher up the food chain embezzled a little too much and my entire department was laid off.

If other government funded institutions are even half as corrupt as education, a lot can be done to eliminate waste.

When you even say 'education expense is wasteful, be assured you have been brainwashed KGB style. Enjoy...and thanks for not helping us get Putin's puppet out of our WH. Guess we'll have to fight for you too.

My gosh, you say the exact same thing every single day going back and farther back - years even, and on other sites.

Thing is, SHE said about y'all being brainwashed, which of course in your case cannot be true because you're just a paid shill.

Wait - what? I saw waste and potential fraud while I worked for a government funded school district - and that means I'm brainwashed by the KGB?

All of that fraud and waste occurred under Obama....not that I'm blaming it on Obama, as far as I could tell - what I witnessed was how it had always been done.

Think about it this way. If government programs have funding cuts, those cuts must come from either the funds used to run the program, or the funds fraudulently extracted by the untrustworthy administrators. The administrators are more likely to get caught if the cuts come from the funds used to run the program instead of their fraud.

I know, this involved math which can't be manipulated by emotions.....find someone who can do math and they'll confirm that you're looking at this wrong.

You're really so ignorant as to believe Trump is Putin's puppet, when it was president Obama who would not give military aid to the Ukraine... it was president Obama who let his pal Vlad take the Crimea from Ukraine... it was president Obama who wanted Vlad told that he would have more flexibility after the election. Unbelievable.

First, stop and ask yourself, why would Putin prefer Trump over Hillary? The answer is he wouldn't. After eight years of walking all over president Obama, and especially with HRC as Secy of State, even Putin was smart enough to know Trump would be way tougher on Russia than Obama had been, which has turned out to be 100% true.

Meanwhile, all president Trump does is keep on winning for America, and you can't stand it! (which is a symptom of chronic TDS) Fortunately, the American people see right through your petty orangemanbad tactics. Sorry snowflakes, get ready for what you will hate the most, but what you desperately need, which is four more years of president Trump.

Goodness, you are a good bot, ain'tcha?

Not a well researched answer. Nope.

To reduce spending.

This isn't a hard question. Try to wrap your head around the logic.

We. Spend. Too. Much.

Must. Cut. Spending.