Donald Trump plans to cut Meals on Wheels to pay for Mexican border wall

[workinclasszero]

Donald Trump plans to cut Meals on Wheels to pay for Mexican border wall
The president appears to be prioritising his promised wall along the US-Mexico border which will receive an immediate $1.5bn (£1.2bn) cash injection
Harriet Agerholm Thursday 16 March 2017 16:09 GMT


Community projects like Meals on Wheels and housing assistance are set to lose out on all of their government funding if Donald Trump's budget blueprint for the coming fiscal year is passed by politicians.

The president's proposals include the complete elimination of the $3 billion (£2.4 billion) Community Development Block Grant program, which funds those programs along with other community assistance efforts.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will also see its funds slashed.

The president appears to be prioritising his promised wall along the US-Mexico border which will receive an immediate $1.5bn (£1.2bn) cash injection, with another $2.6bn (£2.1bn) if his spending plans for the 2018 budget year are approved by the House of Representatives.

Mr Trump – who campaigned for the presidency on a staunchly anti-immigrant platform – said repeatedly during his election bid that Mexico would pay for the wall. Instead, it appears that initially at least, US taxpayers will foot the bill.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-meals-on-wheels-cut-pay-mexico-border-wall-immigration-fema-us-coastguard-budget-a7632551.html?

[C_U_L8R]

1. Trump's head is clearly up his own ass

Where the fuck are your priorities? You monster!

[workinclasszero]

5. Republicans are pure evil

IMO

[Kimchijeon]

11. pure evil, agreed

[lapfog_1]

2. Don't forget eliminating the breakfast at school

for needy children... because "it was 'sold' to the public that it would improve test scores but there is no evidence that the test scores improved" in one of the most heartless statements ever uttered by a Repuke.

[workinclasszero]

6. Sickening

They are heartless bastards for sure.

[SummerSnow]

3. He hates poor people. Wtf???!!!

I bet this is winning to him.

[Leghorn21]

4. this guy has a plan:

@mmpadellan
49s
can save some money on Mexico Wall materials: just build it on the bones of elderly & poor impacted by cuts 2 #MealsOnWheels.

[workinclasszero]

7. That would go along with Dump45's Useless Eaters Act

Useless eaters

Apparently, the term originated in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust as "nutzlose Fresser," translating to "useless eaters." It was first used in reference to the T4 program which targeted the terminally ill, the disabled (both physical and mental), mentally ill, and elderly people for "euthanasia".

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Depopulation_conspiracy_theory

[Leghorn21]

9. HOLY FUG, workin - I watch more Nazi documentaries than the law allows, and have never

heard of "nutzlose Fresser" - MANY thanks to you, and I'll be spreading this foul piece of historical knowledge around as wide and far as I possibly can -

I also strongly feel that this single budget cut proposal, all by itself, is going to create such a shitstorm of blowback from EVERYONE in the US that these gopees will rue the day they ever mentioned it.

[workinclasszero]

12. Trump and Bannon are following Hitler's model to the letter

This is why we all need to be alert for a Reichstag fire type incident that Trump could use to seize total power.

[Leghorn21]

16. "to the letter" indeed - I just called my reps - and I bet I'm not the only one!!

I know the possibility of a Reichstag fire lurks just beneath the surface of the oozing sludgepile now known as WH "policy makers" - and can only hope against hope it does. not. happen. - (oh)

[LonePirate]

8. He wants to starve grandma so he can jack up the prices of fruit and vegetables for all of us?

[procon]

10. So, I guess that whole "Mexico's gonna pay for it!" ruse, was a lie? nt

[workinclasszero]

14. Bingo

Just like he's draining the swamp with all those wall street swindlers in his administration LOL!

[lpbk2713]

13. His kids are probably tied to the dummy corp that will do the work.

And of course the workers will only be paid a fraction
of what they were initially told they would get.

[Kimchijeon]

15. It's like a parody Supervillian's dastardly "plan"

As is everything these evil fuckers come up with. Just cartoonishly evil, if it were in a slapstick movie, it would fit right in. It's crazy that this is our reality right now.