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Trump White House Calls Starving Seniors An Act Of Compassion (Original Post) BeyondGeography Mar 2017 OP
I'd say eating a god damned meal is "showing results" tomhagen Mar 2017 #1
Yes! It's compassionate to those who pay taxes because they won't have to pay as much. Kablooie Mar 2017 #2
It's compassionate to poor, unfortunate billionaires who pay to keep people from starving. tclambert Mar 2017 #22
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Coal is clean. Lanius Mar 2017 #3
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Coal is clean. LenaBaby61 Mar 2017 #5
Don't forget the biggest whopper of all - Work Will Set You Free lunatica Mar 2017 #10
My contempt for this fucker choie Mar 2017 #4
No, absolutely NO evidence. That's been a conservative scam going back to the Reagan days. George II Mar 2017 #7
Holy crap, that guy is one cold-hearted selfish motherfucker! (sorry) George II Mar 2017 #6
No apology needed ailsagirl Mar 2017 #21
While feeding human beings may not produce a demonstrable result... yallerdawg Mar 2017 #8
WHAAAT?? ailsagirl Mar 2017 #9
There must be a special place in Hell... lunatica Mar 2017 #11
It's too bad I don't believe there is one mdbl Mar 2017 #19
me too. lunatica Mar 2017 #30
I noticed his hands are small and delicate - like a woman's lunatica Mar 2017 #12
This inhuman fuckface Plucketeer Mar 2017 #13
Hello, Mr. Spicer won't be today, and I'm Mr. Ebonezer Scrooge and we're gonna justify every dime we downeastdaniel Mar 2017 #14
These damn White House press spoke people need to just answer the questions Ohioboy Mar 2017 #15
Does this idiot have a clump of grass sticking out of his pocket, or what? Ohioboy Mar 2017 #16
Do our tax dollars pay his salary? tecelote Mar 2017 #17
He just blew up xxqqqzme Mar 2017 #18
Wrong Turbineguy Mar 2017 #20
This is what happens when you get George R. R. Martin to write your budget. tclambert Mar 2017 #23
I want to see his data that substantiates one thing he said world wide wally Mar 2017 #24
These programs have cost $150 billion over 40 years pfitz59 Mar 2017 #25
Compassion for the Job Kreatorz, kick in the ass for everyone else. Reaganomics on steriods. RelativelyJones Mar 2017 #26
The most frequently googled word nocalflea Mar 2017 #27
Infuriating... Docreed2003 Mar 2017 #28
One word . . . citizen blues Mar 2017 #29

Kablooie

(18,632 posts)
2. Yes! It's compassionate to those who pay taxes because they won't have to pay as much.
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 04:55 PM
Mar 2017

"That's about as compassionate as you can get."


Nuf said.

tclambert

(11,085 posts)
22. It's compassionate to poor, unfortunate billionaires who pay to keep people from starving.
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 11:03 PM
Mar 2017

And I ask you, how does that benefit the billionaire? Trump's budget will save them a tiny fraction of a percent on their taxes, at the low, low cost of starving children, seniors, and poor people. These are people the billionaire will never see at his country club, and will never spend money at Mar-a-Lago. (Mar-a-Lago. Wasn't that the name of a villain's lair in a James Bond movie?)

Lanius

(599 posts)
3. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Coal is clean.
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 04:56 PM
Mar 2017

Calling out the intolerant is intolerance. Mandated health insurance coverage is bad, but freedom and choice are good (even if you can't afford the choices). etc. etc.

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
5. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Coal is clean.
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 05:02 PM
Mar 2017

THIS is the cover of 1984 I read 3 times in high school.


lunatica

(53,410 posts)
10. Don't forget the biggest whopper of all - Work Will Set You Free
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 05:28 PM
Mar 2017

Written on the gates of Auschwitz.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
8. While feeding human beings may not produce a demonstrable result...
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 05:11 PM
Mar 2017

Mulvaney is completely ignoring the other side of the equation.

When you go to that "single mother of two" and tell her you can't honestly ask her for money to feed the elderly and provide early education or afterschool programs for children, are you saying, "Here. Take your money back?"

Fuck no!

No, that money goes to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman, and United Technologies.

Those CEO's are hurting just as much as that 80-year-old shut-in is starving, and they deserve a little of our collective compassion. And that next fucking Lockheed Martin cruise missile is a demonstrable result - along with more brown and black people dead somewhere else in the world.

It's disgusting they even propose insanity like this.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
13. This inhuman fuckface
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 05:39 PM
Mar 2017

needs to have EVERY SINGLE THING that taxes afford his daily life, withheld from him for a month. No roads, no health care, no clean water, no school for any kids in his family (unless he's paying their tuition), no fire or law enforcement, no flushing his human wastes into public sewer systems, no stringent rules for the purity of his foods - NONE of that SUPERFLUOUS shit that yacht-lounging fat cats help society survive with! Sadly, there's NO ONE on OUR side who can do a damned thing about halting the rape and pillage that the GOP and their pen-weilding clown are in full swing of perpetrating. Those that COULD protest - get funded by the same special interests that pay to keep the GOP in power. We'd have single payer already if health insurance companies didn't have lawmakers gonads in vises.

downeastdaniel

(497 posts)
14. Hello, Mr. Spicer won't be today, and I'm Mr. Ebonezer Scrooge and we're gonna justify every dime we
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 05:43 PM
Mar 2017

Spend. First of all, Meals on Wheels is a congame. Shows no difference whether they eat or starve...really. And school feeding of the hungry is another con...tests show it just stops kids from starving...they don't do better on our tests...so, cry me a river you liberal nellies. We want to spend more on killing and war and those don't come cheap. After all, a hammer costs the Pentagon $600, if you remember.

Ohioboy

(3,240 posts)
15. These damn White House press spoke people need to just answer the questions
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 06:07 PM
Mar 2017

they are asked, and stop preaching their right wing bull.

tecelote

(5,122 posts)
17. Do our tax dollars pay his salary?
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 06:36 PM
Mar 2017

Then, fuck him. Fuck them all.

That's what they are saying to us. If you're not rich, you're worth shit.

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
18. He just blew up
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 06:48 PM
Mar 2017

his own justification for cutting social programs. He needs results. He needs to know that tax money is being used 'in a proper fashion'. Since when is the incredible waste in the military industrial complex, tax money being used 'in a proper fashion'?

tclambert

(11,085 posts)
23. This is what happens when you get George R. R. Martin to write your budget.
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 11:05 PM
Mar 2017

You thought a lot of people died at the Red Wedding? Ha! Trump's Red budget will kill multitudes!

pfitz59

(10,377 posts)
25. These programs have cost $150 billion over 40 years
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 05:01 AM
Mar 2017

"since the 70's"... how much has been spent on "defense" in that time? And saying a single mother in Detroit is being taxed for this is ludicrous. A 0.1% tax increase on the billionaires in Trump's cabinet would cover all of this, with some left over....

Docreed2003

(16,858 posts)
28. Infuriating...
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 08:51 AM
Mar 2017

I suppose it's extremely compassionate to spend millions on Trumps weekend escapades to his golf course???

citizen blues

(570 posts)
29. One word . . .
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 09:44 AM
Mar 2017
***PSYCHOPATH***


Programs that feed children and the elderly don't show any demonstrable benefit!?!?!

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