Trump plans to eliminate "Meals on Wheels" program and others.

[Lightbringer]

Trump plans to cut all federal funds to "Meals on Wheels" program and others.

Trump is cutting all federal funds to the "Meals on Wheels" program, which delivers food to the elderly and disabled. He is also slashing the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 31% and cutting the special supplemental nutrition program for "Women, Infants, and Children" (WIC) which provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income women with infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk, all in order to reallocate the funding to build a pointless border wall, which he also vehemently promised that Mexico would pay for. Further more, the wall's budget is past the 20 billion mark and the cut funds from these programs only amount to 4 billion.

I guess in Trump's America, poor people aren't real people. Isn't America Great?

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[To Whatever]

That's pretty ****ed...

 

[Pumpkin Ninja]

Good luck to you, I guess.

 

[Venomous Cobra]

Poor people don't have no souls

 

[Genocide]

im pretty sure Meals on wheels isnt funded by the american government

 

[Lightbringer]

im pretty sure Meals on wheels isnt funded by the american government

It's not the only contributor, but it gets government grants.

 

[Genocide]

It's not the only contributor, but it gets government grants.

Government grant account for 3%

 

[Lightbringer]

Government grant account for 3%

Ok, and? Meals on wheels has been losing funding for years and the effects have been felt. That 3% can affects hundred of thousands of lives.


And also it's not just 3%

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Public funds at the local level, however, are more substantial, and Meals on Wheels gets much more funding through a different federal program. The nutrition programs of the Older Americans Act support the Meals on Wheels chapters as they actually operate on the ground, and about 30 percent of the expense of home-delivered meals is covered by federal sources.

A cut to this program would have a far more significant effect, especially since that support had been decreasing even before the new budget was considered. The Trump budget calls for a 17.9 percent cut in funding for this program’s parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and it is quite possible Meals on Wheels could be affected. We won’t know until H.H.S. finalizes its budget.

 

[Genocide]

they only serve around 4 million people, and plus that 3% is specifically targeted at running the National Research Center on Nutrition and Aging.

 

[Lightbringer]

they only serve around 4 million people, and plus that 3% is specifically targeted at running the National Research Center on Nutrition and Aging.

Ok and again, it's not just 3%

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Public funds at the local level, however, are more substantial, and Meals on Wheels gets much more funding through a different federal program. The nutrition programs of the Older Americans Act support the Meals on Wheels chapters as they actually operate on the ground, and about 30 percent of the expense of home-delivered meals is covered by federal sources.

A cut to this program would have a far more significant effect, especially since that support had been decreasing even before the new budget was considered. The Trump budget calls for a 17.9 percent cut in funding for this program’s parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and it is quite possible Meals on Wheels could be affected. We won’t know until H.H.S. finalizes its budget.

 

[Genocide]

Ok and again, it's not just 3%

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Public funds at the local level, however, are more substantial, and Meals on Wheels gets much more funding through a different federal program. The nutrition programs of the Older Americans Act support the Meals on Wheels chapters as they actually operate on the ground, and about 30 percent of the expense of home-delivered meals is covered by federal sources.

A cut to this program would have a far more significant effect, especially since that support had been decreasing even before the new budget was considered. The Trump budget calls for a 17.9 percent cut in funding for this program’s parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and it is quite possible Meals on Wheels could be affected. We won’t know until H.H.S. finalizes its budget.

Details on our network’s primary source of funding, the Older Americans Act, which has supported senior nutrition programs for 45 years, have not yet been released. http://www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/national/press-room/news/2017/03/16/meals-on-wheels-america-statement-on-budget-blueprint

Fake News

 

[Lightbringer]

Details on our network’s primary source of funding, the Older Americans Act, which has supported senior nutrition programs for 45 years, have not yet been released. http://www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/national/press-room/news/2017/03/16/meals-on-wheels-america-statement-on-budget-blueprint

Fake News

I think you have some reading comprehension, because it doesn't contradict anything.

Here, I'll even quote the next lines for you.

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This vital Act provides 35% of the total funding for Meals on Wheels (both congregate and home-delivered programs) nationally. With a stated 17.9% cut to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget, however, it is difficult to imagine a scenario in which these critical services would not be significantly and negatively impacted if enacted into law.




Let me end this by saying that insisting on defending any sort of cuts to a program that feeds the elderly and disabled, and then take that money in order to build a border wall just makes you an awful human being; doubly so.

It's simply unjustifiable. But it speaks volumes about you.

 

[Genocide]

I think you have some reading comprehension, because it doesn't contradict anything.

Here, I'll even quote the next lines for you.

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This vital Act provides 35% of the total funding for Meals on Wheels (both congregate and home-delivered programs) nationally. With a stated 17.9% cut to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget, however, it is difficult to imagine a scenario in which these critical services would not be significantly and negatively impacted if enacted into law.




Let me end this by saying that insisting on defending any sort of cuts to a program that feeds the elderly and disabled, and then take that money in order to build a border wall just makes you an awful human being; doubly so.

It's simply unjustifiable. But it speaks volumes about you.

im allowed to defend against fake news, plus it is true that the csbg and cdbg being cut is true there was nothing about the older americans act which is what meals on wheels really rely on

 

[kimb]

"If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn."

 

[BenjerminGaye]

"If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn."

too bad education is getting slashed as well. lol

 

[Uzumaki Macho]

"If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn."

The main targets of Meals on Wheels are elderly and disabled people.

 

[kimb]

too bad education is getting slashed as well. lol

Education is not the only method to gaining more income, and plus the educational system in America is overrated. The value of having a degree in the job market has decreased immensely over the passed decade and universities are becoming cash machines than a place where you can gain an education to acquire better means of living.

The main targets of Meals on Wheels are elderly and disabled people.

If Trump's plans to cut Meals on Wheels goes through and the effects of cut from Meals on Wheels have the slightest effect on the people who benefit from it, I'll personally donate out of pocket. I think if the amount people who are outraged at the loss of the 3% government funding actually cared about how these elderly and disabled people received food and weren't virtue signaling, they could easily make up that 3% in donations and charity, possibly even surpassing that amount.

 

[BenjerminGaye]

Education is not the only method to gaining more income, and plus the educational system in America is overrated. The value of having a degree in the job market has decreased immensely over the passed decade and universities are becoming cash machines than a place where you can gain an education to acquire better means of living.

"If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn."

Don't back pedal. At the end of the day, all it means is youre cutting off 2 of their options for sustainable living.

You're not teaching them to fish nor will you give them fish, but somehow u expect to tax their dinner so to speak.

 

[Bad Touch Yakushi]

So it's the elderly who will pay for voting Trump in first. Along with the troops...kids in education...international relations...

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Why would this man ever care about the poor when their food stamp is paying for his golf and self-profiting travel expenses?

Old people vote the most so this will hugely impact his standing next time round. If they don't just blame it all on Obama out of denial instead that is. They tend to do that.

 

[The Work]

Maybe all these spending cuts are a good thing.

Sometimes the people in control of the money are corrupted.

You can't expect everyone to do the right thing when offered a lump sum of money.