Wait a Minute. Wait a Minute. Wait Just a Damn Minute.
So now the White House is saying that they will not fund programs that “failed to meet their objectives.”
So they want to defund Meals on Wheels but let cabinet secretaries buy $30,000 tables, let Scott Pruitt live large and Ryan Zinke flit around the country with charter airplanes and charge the taxpayers.
Here’s a video of Jim Acosta eating White House budget director Mick Mulvaney for lunch.
Holy damn crap. The Trump budget also cuts Head Start, home energy aid and rental assistance. Which would likely hurt the single mother with two children in Detroit who he claims he’s trying to help.
You’ll notice that Trump’s budget does not cut taxes of single mothers with two children in Detroit. Trump simply wants to defund Means on Wheels and give the money to the Pentagon. If you want to talk about a “program that does not meet their objectives,” the Pentagon would be a damn dandy place to start.
Nice going Acosta. Hold their feet to the fire.
Thanks to Donna for the heads up.
Mick is the second from Donnie’s stable of ‘geniuses’ to be rolled by the media in recent days. Munchkin was schooled on the line item veto and why Donnie would not have that privilege anytime soon.
There was no “e” in moron, until this maladministration arrived to place the “more” in moron.
1The rePUKEians have sold their souls to the evil demon and prove it with every action they do!!!
2Satan is not an evil demon, I’ve read his story in the BigBook o’BS and feel sorry for him!
Head Start has one of the highest returns on investment of any government program. Every dollar invested returns from $7-$9, which is a rate that would make any financial manager drool.
3Let me get this straight. “They ” are not going to take the money from the single Mom in Detroit to pay for programs that are not guaranteed to be functioning! So “they” are not taking her money and not giving her head start or food assistance or help anyone who uses Meals on wheels. So ‘they are saving her money? Huh what a joke That is more than double talk that is garbage talk.
4No, no. It’s great news that the White House will not fund programs that “failed to meet their objectives.”
The objective of the war in Iraq was to install a strong, stable, democracy in Iraq.
Utter unequivocal failure. So stop funding it.
The goal of Meals on Wheels was feeding lonely seniors. Complete success.
So with all the money saved by ending the war in Iraq, we will have plenty of funding for Meals on Wheels, for Head Start, and to rebuild crumbling bridges and highways here in the USA.
5“We are focusing on the recipients of the money…”
Ah, the truth.
6They want to spare the recipients the shame of needing a handout.
They want to help them gain self worth by going it alone, and not relying on their community.
(They want the parasites to die off to decrease out of pocket costs for the oligarchs?)
Every politician wants to get rid of “fraud, waste, and abuse.” Somehow they never look at the Pentagon, the biggest violator on all three counts. No, it’s always programs for the poor and needy that get slashed first.
7What a bunch of heartless, evil s.o.b.s. My dear 96 year old neighbor get meals on wheels.
There will be blow back eventually. Those ten dollar an hour unarmed security guards in their gated communities might just gladly open the gates to the angry masses of the poor, the hungry, and the homeless.
VOTE all of them out!
8It’s time to cull the herd guys.. just do it nicely. With your vote.
9“the White House is saying that they will not fund programs that “failed to meet their objectives.”
If only Americans could refuse to fund the people who don’t meet our objectives.
Question: If Trump builds a wall, and it fails to meet it’s objective, will he pay us back out of his own pocket?
10They want to get rid of fraud, waste, and abuse?
Oh, Goodie! – mass resignations! With Donnie Dumpsterfire leading the inept, malodorous pack!
11Picking on the poor and elderly is a favorite pastime of Rethugs.
They think it makes them look strong and efficient. Nevermind that they are paying out millions to corporations and businesses in subsidies which amounts to CORPORATE WELFARE and gross overspending in the military.
More of the immoral majority values. Midterms can’t come soon enough.
12I always find it hysterical when the latest and greatest say they will eliminate “fraud and waste” and then give the military a free pass. Do you realize that accountants have died of OLD AGE trying to figure out what and how to get rid of all the surplus waste from all of our wars going back to WWI? There are military troop ships from Korea rusting in the Martinez Straits of California; dozens of them. The scrap value alone could cut our national debt in half.
13Most likely poor people are not paying much, if any taxes (if they qualify for the EIC). So no, you’re not helping, Shithead.
Unless by “failing to meet their objectives” they mean their objectives are starving people, giving them hypothermia & frostbite, and not educating preschoolers. And they’ve failed at it so far. That’s probably it. Immoral bastards.
14We are focusing on the recipients of the money. . .
to see what else we can get away with cutting, so we can fund a little war to get Donnie’s numbers up. Soulless bastards (Sorry, Momma, but all the other words are worse)!
15As I may he mentioned here I am on 3 times a week dialysis which means I’m away from home from 8:15am to about 4pm. ( I go to a gym early in the morning and then on to the dialysis clinic, I’m trying to build stamina).
16My husband with dementia is home with 2 dogs all day. The Meals on Wheels volunteer brings him 2 meals, one for his lunch and one for me when I get home very hungry. Not all Meals on Wheels are free, people pay what they can. It’s a wonderful thing for elderly folks like us. People, like my husband, who can use a microwave but shouldn’t be trying to cook are
saved by this program.
off-topic: Cambridge Analytica violated federal election laws during the 2014 midterms by running Republican campaigns. and so did the Republicans who used them.
17No wonder most of them are keeping a low profile regarding the Mueller investigation.
I’ve never assumed they were planning to get rid of programs that don’t meet the objectives of the program but of programs that don’t meet the objectives of the party of Greed Over People.
We’ve got to get out the vote!
18Hmmm. As for Detroit, the last time I touched base there the school children referred to the Golden Gibbon as a Tyrant which is a word they heard at home. Detroit hasn’t much use for the fake president and he knows it. I wouldn’t doubt that there is a single mother of two who needs federally funded assistance in Detroit. And yes she does vote! As do all those folks in Michigan who discovered too late that their completed ballots had been stolen by a Republican voting “official”, about 75,000 of them, cuz the corners were bent. This is one of the parts of the voting public that really do not need to be white suburban educated women or men. They just simply do not forget and they are voting again in about six months.
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