You could feed 5,967 homebound seniors for a year on what Trumps Mar-a-Lago trips cost so far

[workinclasszero]

You could feed 5,967 homebound seniors for a year on what Trump’s Mar-a-Lago trips cost so far
Written by Heather Timmons March 17, 2017

Michael Mulvaney, the US’s new director of the Office of Management and Budget, presented a stark argument for the slashing of programs that feed poor elderly and students in President Donald J. Trump’s new budget on March 16—they’re being cut because feeding poor people doesn’t yield concrete results.

Meals on Wheels “sounds good,” he said during a press conference at the White House, but the administration is not going to spend money “on programs that cannot show that they actually deliver the promises that we’ve made to people.” On after-school programs that provide meals, he said “They’re supposed to help kids who don’t get fed at home get fed so they do better in school. Guess what? There’s no demonstrable evidence they’re actually doing that.”

Taxpayers are already footing a high profile bill that they see no benefit from. The cost to taxpayers of one of President Trump’s weekends to his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, has been estimated at $3.3 million, based in part on a weekend President Barack Obama took to South Florida when he was president. (The cost of flying Air Force One and security make up most of that). Including this coming weekend, Trump will have taken five trips to Mar-a-Lago since becoming president, for a grand total of about $16.5 million.

Meals on Wheels could feed 5,967 seniors for a year for that amount. After school programs could feed 114,583 poor children for a year for the same amount.

https://qz.com/934970/trumps-budget-meals-on-wheels-could-feed-5967-seniors-for-a-year-on-what-trumps-mar-a-lago-trips-cost-so-far/

[Turbineguy]

1. If trump knew that

he'd go twice a week.

[Achilleaze]

2. "Luxury golfing on the public's tax money sounds fine." - republican budget director

"and, you know, it really is totally fine for our republican Draft-&-Tax-Dodger-in-Chief to spends $3million a pop of your tax dollars to keep himself amused on the swanky, elite republican golf courses. Pissing your tax dollars away on the rich is totally a republican thang, SUCKERS."

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[smirkymonkey]

3. God I hate that fat, bloated, stupid, orange fuck!

He is evil to the core. Can't say any more unless I want a visit from the FBI.

[Gothmog]

4. Trump is an idiot