Off & on, l’ve volunteered to deliver Meals on Wheels meals for a number of years. And I’ve known many of my friends who have done the same. As far as I know all the deliveries have been done by volunteers. I’ve also included the organization among my family’s charitable donations. I had no idea that they received any federal government funds.
Only 3% of their budget comes from the feds
Not showing results?My G*d- tell me this is satire.Are they deliberately trying to piss people off?
This program helps the weak! and elderly;it’s worth every penny.
My parents received meals on wheels for awhile and it really helped them when neither of them could shop or cook. I didn’t know it was partially federally funded. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it doesn’t show any results, I mean, you feed people and the next day they’re hungry again. Maybe the funds given weren’t spent on the promises made.
What results were they expecting? Fat seniors?
My parents do not qualify for it as they are too well off according to the criteria. My parents are not rich by any stretch. Where we live there are NO services we can use.
Was good for my grandparents, though.
Not sure this is true, sounds like a scare tactic.
I think it’s a good and needed program for seniors, and |I also think it would continue to be funded through local donations, churches, volunteers and in-kind gifts, and resources such as the community ag programs and coops that already provide much of the food that is distributed thourgh food pantries at the lowest possible cost. Adding the federal gov’t in to the mix only decreases cost-efficiency and adds bureaucratic red-tape.
The Federal Government doesn’t administer the “meals on wheels” programs. It’s a State program, and if the State wants to use their share of annual block grant of Federal funding (I can’t recall the title of the block grant right this minute...getting old is for the birds.) for that activity it’s up to them, not up to the Fed.
“We serve more than 2.4 million seniors from 60 to 100+ years old each year,”
So, is that 2.4 million separate people, or 2.4 million divided by 365 days?
cut the federal money. it’s not the feds job to feed anyone in the USA, citizen or illegal.
Has anyone made the connection between killing inconvenient unborn babies and killing inconvenient seniors? Why do social justice warriors want federal funds to kill a person because he requires more care than his family wishes to give at this time, only if said inconvenient helpless person has his whole life before him? Why, when the inconvenient, helpless person is at the end of his life, does the SJW not want the fedgov to pay for killing him?
I know, horrible, ghastly thought, but just help me understand the logic of the liberal. Killing grandpa- he only has 10 years at best, most of them ill and helpless in bed. Killing junior - he only has one or two helpless years, and then he begins to contribute to the family for decades. Just trying to understand.
I’m 85+ single,live alone in a rural area, and because of legal technicalities can’t drive. I’m living on a poverty level SS (not SSI) income. Yet I can’t qualify even so despite these circumstances because I’m not on disability. I was told if I wanted one of their meals I would have to get unto town where they have a improvised cafeteria set up at a meeting hall.
I was offered to see what it was all about to go out with one if the volunteer drivers on his route who would take me to that hall after he completed his deliveries. SO I did.
Half those people on that route were in far better financial circumstances than I ever given my age and abilities would hope to be. Their vehicles were no more than 5 years old. And most got to the door to accept the meal.
I offer no conclusion about this but to point out there is a need and a he;; of a lot of waste
Another example of dishonest reporting.
In the USA, Meals on Wheels are largely county-level local non-profits. It is not a government program so it shouldn’t receive federal funding. Technically, those MoW nonprofits that do get any type of federal grant, are not allowed to charge for the meals or serve meals to anyone younger than 60 (according to wiki) so there’s actually a disincentive.
After-school ‘educational programs’ were supposed to improve student scores, sociability and employability. They haven’t. Serving a snack may or may not have been part of the after-school program. Serving a snack didn’t improve student scores or health, either.
This is just the beginning of draining the swamp - by weeding out the failed or unnecessary or not-fed programs whose dollars go into an endless hole with no results. It’s like cleaning the attic. Hard work, a lot of memories, but worth it.
My parents receive meal on wheels service for several years now. Which is big help because they are both barely able to care for themselves. I think it is a good organization that provides a valuable and needed service.
However, no private organization should receive federal money regardless the honorable mission. Cut it.....
Meals on Wheels is not a federal program, it’s funded by state or local tax dollars and donations. The Federal Government gives a block grant to communities which some use part of to provide part of the funding for Meals on Wheels.
Anybody who wants an enlightening experience should attend their local Government’s CDBG hearing, or watch the archived footage of one. The hearings draw a sizable group of attendees, ranging from those who provide legitimate services to some who are outright scam artists. A significant group in the middle have nice sounding goals but customarily produce nothing of value to anyone but those who run them. They’re all lined up trying to get their snouts in the federal money trough. Frequently, cities aren’t too selective about who they give the money to because it’s not theirs.
In my community, re-purposing the money going to the scamsters would easily cover MOW. I doubt that we’re unique.
The Bezos Post is getting creative again. He didn’t make any proposal regarding Meals on Wheels. He proposed cutting Community Block Development Grants. One reporter, probably reading from his DNC talking point card, brought up MOW.
Considering the source, I would very much like to see the actual full statement, in context.
That said, the Federal Government does have the authority to spend money in this fashion - if they are, it is wrong.
It is not theirs to give.
Meals On Wheels and LIHEAP are two programs that actually work, and should be left alone.
There’s plenty of other pork that can be cut from other areas of the budget.
Such as John McCain’s salary....
Part of the problem with government largess being used for charitable reasons is that eventually charity by individuals becomes moot as the government controls all the charity (welfare).
The administration speaker is wrong on how useful and helpful the Meals on Wheels program is.
However, the Federal amount it receives is not so much that it is necessary to sustain the program, and it can be more useful without any federal government strings that might come with federal aid.
It’s a good program deserving of support, but there is no need, financial or otherwise, for it to be a federally funded program.
The program may have results, contrary to Mr. Mulvaney, but why must the Feds fund everything? State and local governments and philanthropists cannot take up the slack???