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How low can Trump possibly go? the man has absolutely no moral compass. Slashing funding for Special Olympics and looking to reduce aid to hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico while having pushed through tax cuts for millionaires. I guess the rich come before the truly needy in Trump's world.
Non-profits do far more benefit than any government program.
There are no such things. St Jude's accepts Medicaid and Insurance through the ACA. My argument has nothing to do with non profit hospitals which I fully support as a model we should pursue.
Does anyone have actual numbers? Not the $16m number...what was there budget last year vs. what there budget is this year?
Let me explain, if last year they received $20m and this year they are going to get $25 million and someone comes back and says, no, they are going to have their $20 like last year...
Is that slashing a budget?....I'm not saying that's what happened...but lets see the numbers....
I support the right of the people to organize and hold their own special olympics using their own sourced money.
And Special Olympics does just that. 90% of their funding comes from private donations and investment. They only get about 10% of their overall funding from government.
If it concerns people so much, those people should donate money to the tax exempt organization.
The federal government has no business funding Special Olympics. None whatsoever.
You do realize, don’t you, that if education has to be funded by the parents, that the poor will go uneducated and our country will suffer with a population that cannot read and write, and therefore not be able to hold a job. Just what the USA needs— more ignorant people...
All one needs to educate a child through their second year of college is a computer and a connection to the Internet.
If parents are too poor to afford a laptop and a connection to the Internet, maybe they should keep it in their pants until they are on a better financial footing.
There is no logical reason to assemble all our children in one place to be force fed whatever the state wants to shove into their heads.
Reading, writing, mathematics, science and all the rest can be learned online.
Education should be privately funded. Besides the immorality of forcing people to pay for the education of others , It limits the ability of people with abhorrent ideologies like your own to influence young minds.
I wonder if there are any civilized countries where there is no such thing as publicly funded education and if you would want to live in any of them.
Which is no different than forcing those who don't drive to pay for federally funded highways or people who don't fly to pay for an air traffic control system or forcing people who don't farm to pay to bail out farmers screwed over by an ill-planned government trade war. Gee, what's the sense of having any government at all?
And 'to provide for the common defense' is a damn poor answer if we cut everything until there's nothing left worth defending.
You're almost there. You're so close. The government is mandated by the Constitution to defend this country. The role of government is not for special interests or socialist hand outs to anyone and everyone who asks for one. It is NOT their role to supply money to education, the Special Olympics, welfare, etc.
The question is not: What's the sense of having any government at all (although some will disagree with that, too).
The question is: What is the point of having the government stealing from the citizens to give to another citizen who can't be bothered to raise the money themselves? Want money for the Special Olympics? Get out there and start knocking on doors. Create a charity for it. You ask for it from the people, you don't force it from the people by using the government as your strong arm.
All one needs to educate a child through their second year of college is a computer and a connection to the Internet.
If parents are too poor to afford a laptop and a connection to the Internet, maybe they should keep it in their pants until they are on a better financial footing.
There is no logical reason to assemble all our children in one place to be force fed whatever the state wants to shove into their heads.
Reading, writing, mathematics, science and all the rest can be learned online.
If you want a baby sitter, hire a baby sitter.
You are going to be raising a busload of kids completely unable to cope with being adults by keeping them home away from the social skills you learn around so many other people.
And no, allowing them out to play afterwards is not the same thing.
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