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Re: Pentagon Grows, While E.P.A. and State Shrink in Trump’s Budget
The Director of the OMB has some sad priorities.
He can ask a coal miner to pay the make the most powerful military in history even larger, but he can't ask him to pay for research into curing diseases, Training nurses, making sure that the air and water aren't a health hazard for his children, or for culture?
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Trump proposed budget eliminates funds for Meals on Wheels
President Trump’s proposed budget blueprint eliminates funding for Meals on Wheels, a program that provides meals for the poor, elderly and veterans.
Trump’s proposed cuts include $3 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant program, which includes Meals on Wheels among other housing and community programs.
The budget outlines more than $6 million in cuts for HUD, a 13.2 percent decrease from its current funding.
Meals on Wheels reports that 3 percent of its funding comes from government grants, while 84 percent comes from corporate and foundation grants and individual contributions.
Meals on Wheels, which provides food to individuals who are unable to leave their homes, says it served more than 219 million meals to 2 million seniors in 2015.
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Just Fred wrote:
This would reflect item number 4 in Lawrence Britt's "The 14 Characteristics of Fascism" :
Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
The DOJ will be cut. And money will be shifted from areas like civil rights, and fair lending to "law and order.
Trump's Proposed DOJ Budget Could Cut Civil Rights Funding
By Evan Weinberger
Law360, New York (March 16, 2017, 9:14 PM EDT) -- The Trump administration's Thursday proposal to cut the U.S. Department of Justice’s budget even as spending on immigration enforcement and other areas increases is another indication that the new administration will put less emphasis on civil rights, fair lending, antitrust and other areas, experts say.
#12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment.
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