Posted on 02/27/2017 2:36:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Bread for the World warned that the current FY 2018 budget outline drafted by President Donald J. Trump would worsen hunger and poverty in the U.S. and abroad. The cuts to domestic social safety net programs and foreign aid are aimed to boost the Pentagon’s budget by 10 percent.
“President Trump is proposing slashing programs that help hungry and poor people,” said Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World. “These programs include nutrition assistance in the U.S. and aid to poor and hungry people around the world. This comes when 20 million people are at risk of famine in South Sudan and elsewhere in Africa. Everyone should be alarmed by these cuts.”
According to the Office of Management and Budget, the State Department should expect significant budget cuts. Funding for foreign aid and nutrition and development programs comes from the State Department’s budget. These programs help reduce malnutrition and significantly improve the lives of mothers and children.
In his draft budget outline released today, Trump proposes a 15 percent cut across all non-defense discretionary spending. Selected programs are slated for significantly higher cuts. Currently, the US spends less than 1 cent per dollar on foreign aid, but even this could be cut by 30 percent. The Department of Defense would get a $54 billion boost.
“Last year, we saw the number of people suffering from hunger and poverty in this country fall,” said Beckmann. “Cutting funding anti-poverty programs will increase hunger and poverty. We cannot let poor and hungry people suffer further. Americans need to contact their members of Congress and tell them to stop this madness.”
While an outline of the budget was released today, the full details are slated to be available on March 14.
Because liberals make America to be the bad guy on the block. We take and don’t give back is what they claim.
....and according to states like California, provide healthcare for everyone in the world. The population of California is 40 million, being generous I would say half work and pay taxes and according to the libs running that state 20 million people should finance healthcare for 7 billion people. All those 7 billion have to do is walk over the border.
If the women look anything like Lena Dunham, they could do with a little starvation.
The social safety net is more like the La Brea tar pit then it is a safety net.
People fall into it and are never able to get out. I would submit that the “war on poverty” has caused more damage to society then any other government program. Whole generations have been condemned to life in poverty because the system is rigged to keep them there.
The US is the slush fund of the World don’t you know
“While all segments of the U.S. population are affected by obesity, one of the common myths that exists is that all or virtually all low-income people are far more likely to be obese”
http://frac.org/obesity-health/relationship-poverty-obesity
Rick Steves of PBS advertises for Bread For the World!! HUGE LEFTY!!!!
OH MY GOSH!!! How dare the United States not feed every human in the World....oh those poor, poor people that have to starve to death...they will be skin and bones in hours...
B.S. We are Americans, and We have had enough of taking care of the world, what is the rest of the world doing besides killing each other off, or bribing everyone for money, or going around thinking your important and giving away things in America that belong to AMERICANS!!!
Your Country Your People Take care of them yourself!!!
Unless its money for missile defense I don’t even want the military to get more money. Let Germany defend itself from Lichtenstien by itself.
The media has so many “minorities, women and children hurt” stories stored up from when Obama was President and they couldn’t print them...
So many that their need to store them for when a Republican President came in drove down the price of hard drives!
I thought Obama handed off a great economy with low unemployement, wait what? The soup lines are hidden by EBT cards? The recovery isn’t? But but...
BRK.A is an evil Warren Buffett Fascist Crony Capitalist Corporation, and Buffett, one of the richest SOB's on the planet, can himself alone, afford to feed Africa.
Start at the top, Chris.
it will help global warming
Match the Saudi and Kuwaiti contributions, but not a penny more.
If Trump gets the economy moving, MORE people will be working.
Working people mean LESS people on social programs.
More people working, mean more people with more money.
Meaning more people able to give to charity.
That's because the more you do for people the less capable people become of doing for themselves. Also this just goes to prove that the more you get involved the more need arises. There is no solution to the problem, because the problem just grows larger.
>“President Trump is proposing slashing programs that help hungry and poor people,” said Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World. “These programs include nutrition assistance in the U.S. and aid to poor and hungry people around the world. This comes when 20 million people are at risk of famine in South Sudan and elsewhere in Africa. Everyone should be alarmed by these cuts.”
Then get a handle on the idiots breeding more mouths than they can feed. The USA is not responsible for your overbreeding except the few here that promote and help sustain it.
Use your brains if you have any left.
Why are my taxes going to feed Africans? That’s not the job of the federal government.
Because according to democrats, not only are black people too stupid to have IDs, but are also too stupid to farm, or create anything of value more technologically advanced than stone tools or fire that anybody will trade for. According to democrats, there would be no black people at all if breathing or heart beating were not autonomic.
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