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Don't know if this has been posted before....but GOV funding is only about 3% of Meals on Wheels...
Yea, and according to the left, people are going to die...go hungry....blah blah blah....
Seems like people are in big trouble if they Meals and Wheels goes away....
Oh wait....
Quote:
Meals on Wheels received 50 times the typical amount of daily donations on Thursday after the White House proposed cuts to some of the program's sources of funding, a spokesperson for the group said.
Volunteer sign-ups also jumped, increasing by 500%, according to Jenny Bertolette, a spokeswoman for Meals on Wheels America
I think most people know, at least by now from reading this thread, that federal funding is only 3% of the MOW program. However, it's the pure nastiness of trying to cut a program like this that shocks people!
Nothing should ever be off the table or considered a sacred cow. Everything is scrutinized and haggled over before laws are passed or funding is changed. You can, right this instant, find everything the Feds funds that you like and get upset about money possibly being cut in advance. Or you can wait to see what actually happens and what real world effects it has. This is part of the problem you know, never being willing to consider that what we've been doing forever isn't the best way anymore. There a many things on the books, may things that are on autopilot, that shouldn't be. Time changes things, society changes things, everything has to be valid today to make sense.
So, cutting funding for the military should not be off the table. The current funding additions are definitely not something the military needs. Trump wants a $54 million dollar increase in military spending. So he cuts domestic spending to public schools (for generally unfunded mandates even now), the epa (for enforcing regulations on water and air pollution), the state department, the agriculture department, the labor department, the army corp of engineers, climate research, the Small Business Administration, etc. We already have the biggest defense budget of all countries.
I think most people know, at least by now from reading this thread, that federal funding is only 3% of the MOW program. However, it's the pure nastiness of trying to cut a program like this that shocks people!
I think most people know, at least by now from reading this thread, that federal funding is only 3% of the MOW program. However, it's the pure nastiness of trying to cut a program like this that shocks people!
The program is getting cut? Of course not, it's just not going to be funded by the GOV. Why is that so bad?
The article does not dispute what I said about the 3%. It's the sheer nastiness of cutting funding for a low-cost (to the feds) service to elderly homebound people (that is one of the criteria) that is so distasteful.
The article does not dispute what I said about the 3%. It's the sheer nastiness of cutting funding for a low-cost (to the feds) service to elderly homebound people (that is one of the criteria) that is so distasteful.
No it doesn't dispute what you said, but it does mention that the money is not going to where its supposed to go.
I think most people know, at least by now from reading this thread, that federal funding is only 3% of the MOW program. However, it's the pure nastiness of trying to cut a program like this that shocks people!
If you accept it as "pure nastiness", perhaps; many of us don't.
Bureaucrats aren't motivated, or disciplined, by the natural forces of free markets; they like to think of themselves as "dealing with a problem", but if the "problem" is "solved", then they, the bureaucratic middle(wo)men, no longer have a role to play.
A lot of us who hold to conservative values don't have too much of an issue with the simple existence of a societal "safety net"; we understand, after all, that the increasingly mobile nature of our economy might leave us high-and-dry at some point in the future.
The problem we have is with the relatively small, but powerful clique at the top of Meals-on-Wheels and similar programs; we can assure you that they would fight any attempt to return control over the program to somewhere closer to the local community, because not only would it become easier to identify and exclude anyone actuallly defrauding the system; it would leave them without a role to play, thereby threatening their "soft job" and paycheck.
So they hide behind a supposed need for "protection" of their poster-child clientele.
Yes. It's called caring for your own neighbors in your own communities. Is that a foreign concept to lefties? Why do they think the Fed Gov has to administer such aid? The Fed Gov is so far removed from the situation that they don't even know what's needed and by whom. Well, shame on them, then. It SHOULD be a community outreach priority.
then start one and come back and tell the rest of us how to do it, ok? Would be nice for people doling out advice to put their money where your mouth is once in awhile
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