It’s this type of hyperbole and misrepresentation that pisses some people off (and how got Trump into office, I suspect).
You ignore facts to present an argument that’s nothing more than an appeal to emotion, a fallacy (Appeal to emotion - Wikipedia).
Trump proposes cuts to HUD in an effort to reduce spending. An overdue need in a bloated American government.
As a byproduct of this reduction is the Meals on Wheels program. It’s not strictly a cut to them, as you insinuate, but to the entity that supports them, to a degree. A degree that’s pretty minimal…
I think the meals on wheels program will survive just fine, on the basis that it’s a charity that gets funding from the people. It’s not a government subsidy.
More alarming is the plan to cut the budget of the National Institutes of Health – which conduct and fund medical research – by $5.8 billion, or about 18 percent from 2017 levels.
How much money is Hewey’s bloated government saving by sending his torture-supporting rapist of a president on his weekly golf junkets while guarding his sequestered trophy wife in New York?
Synopsis: there are three small agencies — total spending about $175M/year — which provide services such as clean water, roads, and job retraining to impoverished areas such as Appalachia, the lower Mississippi delta, and far northern New England. Areas which, BTW, went strongly for Donald of Orange in the last election. Not only is their collective spending minuscule on the Federal scale, but one director claims to generate $8 in private investment for every agency dollar.
Quiz: How much do these agencies get in DoO’s budget proposal? Hint: his budget director told MSNBC, “folks who voted for the president are getting exactly what they voted for.”
Disclaimer: I am not (financially) impoverished, nor am I from any of the affected areas, so technically I suppose my reaction could be classified as RO. But I’m a human being, and I like to think that carries some obligation to be mindful of my fellows, however much they may have voted this on themselves.
OttodaFe, there’s an excellent article in Forbes about how White lower-middle-class Americans (lots of Trump voters) don’t like the welfare state, but because they’ve benefitted from “white socialism” – benefits channeled through employers, and they had the jobs in the post-WW2 era (and are fooled into thinking many of these jobs will cone back). It helped me understand better why these folks SEEM to vote against their own interests:
You know, Chevy Chase is probably more physically representative of cheeto brain then Alec Baldwin is. And no one really likes him either. Maybe he should be back on SNL now that Baldwin seems tired of it all.
