Trump voter facing end of her Meals on Wheels "was under the influence that he was going to help us"

[Miles Archer]

Trump Voter Shocked To Find That Her Meals On Wheels Could Be Cut
“I was under the influence that he was going to help us.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/one-direction-singer-says-trump-once-kicked-band-out-of-hotel-for-not-meeting-his-daughter_us_58cd672be4b0ec9d29dc8348?qr2pctrl3o1mm42t9&

Linda Preast has used a wheelchair since she had a stroke two years ago and now relies on Meals on Wheels, a service that provides food to millions of people with disabilities and the elderly. The 56-year-old Georgia resident never envisioned when she voted for President Donald Trump that he’d propose slashing funding for the programs.

“Are you surprised?” CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller asked Preast at her home in Jones County Saturday.

“Yeah,” Preast said. “Because he was told ― I was under the influence that he was going to help us.”

On Thursday, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney attacked the service, saying programs like Meals on Wheels “are just not showing any results.”

[Linc13]

1. Oh...

you were "Under The Influence" all right.

[pangaia]

27. THAT says it all right there... Like 3rd grade....

[Cha]

42. Under trump's obnoxious brainwashing influence. "blah blah.. put her in jail.."

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. Elections have consequences.

Eliminating Meals on Wheels because it is "just not showing any results" is like eliminating clean water because it just turns to piss anyway.

[Renew Deal]

3. He is helping her

Be self sufficient. Hope she's got some bootstraps.

[riversedge]

8. Since she can not walk, bookstraps will not help.

[LisaL]

9. But maybe she will learn something.

[infidelsavant]

4. I would love to smack that smug look off his face

Seriously.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. That would be one long line. & Welcome to DU.

[shenmue]

7. Join the line

[Cha]

43. I think his own fucking petard is going to slap it off one

of these days.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. Don't worry Linda, Trump is going to put you back to work, you lazy shiftless eater.

[LisaL]

10. Considering she is disabled in a wheelchair, I am sure her job opportunities are endless.

[Maru Kitteh]

21. Please. She could get a job if she knew how to present herself. Put some gold leaf and Rococo

on that chair and a good spray tan - she could be a bazillionaire and then she too can sit in a gold-plated house and laugh at the people dying.

[smirkymonkey]

32. Hey, she has fingers. She can type.

[riversedge]

11. "What would you say to him [Trump] to convince him not to cut this program? Miller asked.

............."What would you say to him to convince him not to cut this program?” Miller asked.

“What if it was your momma?” Preast said...............

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/meals-on-wheels-trump-budget-cut-impact-on-voters/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=35604188

[SummerSnow]

20. Trump: " Well you're not my mother, so there"

[riversedge]

35. No doubt Trump would have a vile comment.

[standingtall]

12. You mean to tell me

a rich republican businessman. Was not going to help poor people,but fuck them over instead?
Who could've saw that one coming?

[rtracey]

13. yeah well

Sorry, but I have ZERO, ZERO, ZERO sympathy for Fuckump voters and supporters....too bad lady, maybe next election you will look deeper and not listen to all the fucking right wing shit.

[Chevy]

14. Van Jones wants us to feel her pain n/t

[Takket]

15. t just goes to show how completely uninformed the electorate is

How could a disabled elderly person who depends on Meals on Wheels ever vote for a non-Democrat candidate? How do they come to a place where they don't understand which party supports social benefits for the public? Where did this person get her information.

[Blue_true]

26. She likely depend on more than meals on wheels.

She is 56 and disabled. She likely get disability payments from the government. People like her have never had to face their stupidity, because even at the state level, Democrats were there to soften the blows that republicans tried to put on people like her.

[mn9driver]

16. I'll save my pity for someone who deserves it.

She voted for what she's getting.

[More_Cowbell]

17. "My entitlements" vs. "Their entitlements"

It baffles me how people ignored the federal assistance they receive while jumping on the GOP "kill entitlements" bandwagon.

[SummerSnow]

18. He told her she was going to get tired of 'winning"

[LisaL]

22. Yep.

[WinkyDink]

44. He mispronounced "whining."

[Initech]

19. Trump is a cult leader. His followers have been brainwashed.

I have zero fucks left to give for people who are still under the spell of this cult.

[still_one]

23. Under what influence? Trump told you he would repeal the ACA on day one. Everyone knew that Trump

is a racist, sexist, bigot. Which part of his views made you think his hate would help you?

[JI7]

24. what's her opinion on black lives matter, refugees, and immigrants ?

[dalton99a]

25. Meals on Wheels "not showing any results" means people are not dead. So Mulvaney wants to kill them.

[demosincebirth]

53. ...not making any money. That's what I read into it.

[Charles Bukowski]

28. "But I thought Trump was only going after the coloreds!"

- this lady.

You thought wrong, Deplorable.

[Thrill]

29. What exactly made you think that? Did she not listen to Obama's DNC speech?

[Zambero]

30. Sorry, no more meals

Just all the boot straps you can get your hands on. Vote for a con artist and rest assured you will be conned beyond your wildest dreams.

[sobenji]

31. Nope

I'm sor........she has my sym.....I hope she ge......


Nope!
Too bad. No sympathy here.

[Tatiana]

33. There is a part of me that thinks she deserves what Trump will bring her.

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The problem is that there are many others that don't deserve the heartless consequences of her selfish and disastrous choice of a President.

The Republican plan is for the types of people who need programs like Meals on Wheels to die. Period. They don't want the cost or responsibility of having to care for the elderly. This poor brainwashed soul will find out exactly what a bill of goods she was sold.

[WinkyDink]

45. Exactly. No food and no medical care.

[LenaBaby61]

55. There is a part of me that thinks she deserves what Trump will bring her.

"The problem is that there are many others that don't deserve the heartless consequences of her selfish and disastrous choice of a President."

That's who I feel sorry for, not those like this woman.

[smirkymonkey]

34. The second MOW recipient?

I'm not even going to say where I think she can go.

[Baitball Blogger]

36. "I was under the influence..."

No truer words were ever said.

[Horse with no Name]

37. If she thinks that is fun...wait until he goes after her Social Security

and most likely Medicare.....and the other entitlement programs she depends on due to her disability.

[elias7]

38. And she'll vote republican again in 4 years

[dalton99a]

49. "I guarantee it"

[COLGATE4]

61. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! nt

[Doreen]

39. None of them REALLY LISTENED.

If any of those uneducated saps would have actually listened to what he was saying then they would have known. They just went off on a rant and fucked the rest of us because they did not listen or only went on one subject and that was more than likely a hateful one.

[lostnfound]

41. Some of them were just rolling some dice. But I wish they wouldn't vote at all.

If you're too dumb not to see what a giant immoral CON Trump is, you should never trust your own judgment again.

[hatrack]

40. Stupid is one hell of a drug . . .

[Warren DeMontague]

46. BUT HER EMAILS

[oasis]

47. When you vote to oppress

You put yourself in a mess.

[dalton99a]

50. It's a shame that their MAGA hats are not edible

[liquid diamond]

48. Die. And may others like you do the same.

Less support for the fuhrer in 2020.

[JI7]

51. they thought he was just going to take it away from black/brown people

not good americans(whites) like them.

[WiffenPoof]

52. Reading some of the responses...

....reminds me of something.

Trump is incredibly rich... Yet, he thinks nothing of the poor.

Then I think of FDR. He also was incredibly rich. Yet, he cared for the least of us... The poor... The underrepresented....

FDR was a man of character, a man off compassion.... He was a man. Not a little boy.

P

[radical noodle]

56. FDR was an incredibly rich man

but he had known bad times. He had suffered. Trump has only created suffering without ever knowing any consequences. It doesn't bother him a bit to hurt people.

[WiffenPoof]

57. I think your right....

FDR did suffer. However, I think he would have demonstrated the same compassion and character mostly because of the way he was brought up.

JFK is another example of someone who came from a privileged background but still understood that there were people who were truly needy.

[radical noodle]

62. Yes, he probably would have

he felt a duty to be a public servant rather than a dictator.

[RoadhogRidesAgain]

54. The truth is

She was under the influence that screwing over minorities would make her life better. And she went in for the kill with her vote. And now it backfired. If trump actually took minorities down and helped her in the process she would be very happy right now.

Do not show these people pity or sympathy. Let them suffer.

[ribrepin]

58. Sadly - you are right on!

[nocalflea]

59. Hope you enjoy the hangover , lady .

[JustAnotherGen]

60. What does Linda want from me?

I didn't do this.

I didn't want this.

It's her problem to solve.

I'm focused on Russian shenanigans - not this distraction.