Posted on 03/16/2017 12:00:55 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If you’re a poor person in America, President Trump’s budget proposal is not for you.
Trump has unveiled a budget that would slash or abolish programs that have provided low-income Americans with help on virtually all fronts, including affordable housing, banking, weatherizing homes, job training, paying home heating oil bills, and obtaining legal counsel in civil matters.
Gone would be $35 million in funding for well-known programs such as Habitat for Humanity and YouthBuild USA, fair housing planning, and homeless assistance, among other housing help for needy Americans.
Other targets include funding for neighborhood development and a home-buying program through which low-income individuals help build their own homes. Trump also plans to cut the Home Investment Partnership Program, the largest federal grant to state and local governments that is designed to create affordable housing.
Poor people need not lean on community banks for financial help, either, because Trump plans to eliminate the $210 million now dedicated toward Community Development Financial Institutions.
Alaska’s rural poor get hit by the budget proposal, too, despite having two Republican senators. The Agriculture budget would eliminate the Denali Commission, designed to deliver services to remote, rural communities in Alaska, including Native Americans.
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Why carry someone when they can learn to run on their own?
Certainly the budget depends upon the affluent, not the poor. Trump has not suggested that he will hold those who cannot afford it, to contribute their fair share--now has he?
When do the Los Angeles bums get a swift kick in the ass?
There are a lot of fat hogs sitting on their butts every day living off the public dole. They don’t look for work. They don’t want to work.
Their only “job” is reproduction so that the liberals will have plently of votes.
A lot of them are not even citizens of this country.
Many I have spoken to are getting sick and tired of being the only one in the neighborhood who takes of for work each day while the lazy slugs are still in bed. It’s disgusting.
They deserve to have their “ benefits” removed.
Jesus said be kind to your neighbor. He didn’t say we must support the entire neighborhood while they make no effort whatsoever to work themselves.
If you’re a poor person in America, Trump’s budget is not for you
What is "fair share"?
Now I know about the XVIth Amendment. But that is hardly the standard of what is fair. My comment was a bit of dry humor, however. Still it is interesting that we seem to have more evident ongoing poverty, since the XVIth than we had in Colonial times immediately before the Constitution. Note Jefferson's recital of Welfare in 1782:
Wash Post HATES Poor People
That is a better title.
“...if you are a poor person...”
“Why are you poor?”
Exactly.
Yes, there are some seriously/legitimately/[however you want to describe it] poor. Encourage charity. Insofar as some fall thru the cracks, and there will be un-Constitutional pressure to do so, we may (considering other battles to fight) let the gov’t pitch in.
There are a great many who are poor because it has become a viable lifestyle choice. In the process of eradicating poverty by making it practically illegal, the gov’t is morally* obligated to support people who are not allowed functional poverty. Consequence is, if you’re OK with living at the poverty line (which many are), the gov’t will pay your way. Pretty luxurious actually. Sounds like a great budget line to trim or eviscerate.
* - if you’re going to do things wrong, you still need to mitigate the consequences. Better to do things right, but if you’re going to be stupid then at least be smart about it.
“grandma will have to eat dog food coming in 5..4..3..2..1”
I’ve gone to Walmart and priced dog food vs an inexpensive yet healthy human food meal. With a little care & attention, human food is cheaper.
At today’s presser Mulvaney pointed out that the budget is completely compassionate to those who are asked to fund programs that waste or otherwise do not deliver on their mission.
He was good.
His budget slashing of the EPA and his executive orders regarding energy are already increasing jobs.
minus a 50% cut. A charity with that kind of overhead percentage is called a scam.
Funny that you should mention “energy” when there are still many graduate engineers, who once worked in the energy sector, unemployed for years in Texas.
We have not (yet) initiated our long-awaited “energy independence” project and nothing seems to be on the horizon.
Get off the welfare free ride, get a job and take care of your own family. The amount of people on welfare is ridiculous.. most of them just game the system. Enough of this already.
It will take time for reigning in the EPA to affect every sector of the economy.
But Coal is beginning to revive now.
I am not interested in saddling my grand- and great grand children with debt to care for non producers.
Expected Leftist propaganda. Of course the Democrat WP is going to focus on women and children and poor hurt the worst. What it intentionally fails to cover is that the budget cuts the different government department to get them back to their core purpose. Mulvaney gave quite a few examples of how mission creep has expanded many of the departments well beyond their legal and authorized purpose. Example, why is Global Warming part of the State Dept, or Muslim outreach part of NASA and other examples. WP propaganda is all this is.
They say “poor” person, I say lazy person. If one is a lazy good-for-nothing slouch, then President Trump’s budget isn’t for them! He wouldn’t have to slash the budget if not for Obama lavishly spending our taxdollars frivolously. Obama threw away future dollars that are making future generations poorer! President Trump is the grown-up trying to make things right again with our national budget.
So yes, you’re right, these so-called “poor” persons are welfare slugs and the like.
If you are a poor person in America, there is a charity for you, not government, or, there will be if government gets out of the way.
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