#LetThemDie ? Well apparently not.

[rightwinger]

The billions being cut have mostly been spent in wealthier neighborhoods, not for programs for the poor, like Meals on Wheels. The funding for that comes from other sources. Only a very small percent of spending from the CDBG. Cutting that program will not stop Meals on Wheels but will stop what looks like a slush fund. As usual, fake news is sounding false alarms because that's all they've got these days.

"The money often is not going to Meals on Wheels or even to the neediest communities. As a Reason Foundation analysis also from 2013 shows, wealthier communities get the larger chunks of the money, particularly counties that—what a coincidence!—are in proximity to Washington, D.C….Check out this audit from Riverside County, California, for their CDBG expenditures for 2016, and there's neither a meal nor a wheel to be found. Of the $761,744 the county received, nearly all of it went to improve a playground and the sidewalks of a single local elementary school. And note that the reason they were audited by Housing and Urban Development was because they hadn't provided proper documentation of their expenses.

Meals on Wheels does get some money from the CDGB. But the vast majority of its funding comes from elsewhere, and as even the leftists over at Snopes state, “the effect of CDBG cuts on local Meals on Wheels groups is uncertain.” Only 3 percent of the Meals on Wheels budget nationally comes from the federal government at all, and only a portion of that comes from the CDBG. Walter Olson of the Cato Institute explains that 35 percent of federal funding for Meals on Wheels comes from the Older Americans Act, not the CDBG; no cuts have been contemplated to that program yet.

So, Trump isn’t killing Meals on Wheels."

FAKE NEWS: Did Trump Just Kill Meals On Wheels? Not Even Close.

Trump hates old people

 

[rightwinger]

Sorry Grandma......looks like cat food today

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Fake news. It's getting really absurd.

 

[rightwinger]

Why does Trump want to stop a program that helps people?

 

[Valerie]

'We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good': Trump budget would slash funding from program that feeds 2 million seniors

 

[Valerie]

Trump's budget would strip $3 billion from the Community Development Block Grant program, which supports a variety of community-development and anti-poverty programs. Those include Meals on Wheels, which provided 219 million meals to 2.4 million seniors in 2016.


CNN reporter Jim Acosta asked Mulvaney if the funding cuts were "hard-hearted." Mulvaney responded that reducing government spending on ineffective programs is "probably one of the most compassionate things we can do."

"You're only focusing on half of the equation, right? You're only focusing on recipients of the money," Mulvaney said. "We're trying to focus on both the recipients of the money and the folks who give us the money in the first place.

I think it's fairly compassionate to go to them and say, 'Look, we're not going to ask you for your hard-earned money anymore.'"

Meals on Wheels also receives state and local funding as well as private donations. It relies on volunteers to provide many of its services.

A recent study showed that the organization helps keep seniors in their homes — and out of costly nursing homes — longer. The national Meals on Wheels organization says that it saves the country $34 billion per year by preventing seniors from falling and injuring themselves in their homes.

 

[Onyx]

Why does Trump want to stop a program that helps people?

To make Lockheed Martin great again!

 

[rightwinger]

Why? Why did Trump take away my dinner?

Because Republicans are assholes mom

 

[Valerie]

 

[Valerie]

Trump's budget would strip $3 billion from the Community Development Block Grant program, which supports a variety of community-development and anti-poverty programs. Those include Meals on Wheels, which provided 219 million meals to 2.4 million seniors in 2016.



A recent study showed that the organization helps keep seniors in their homes — and out of costly nursing homes — longer. The national Meals on Wheels organization says that it saves the country $34 billion per year by preventing seniors from falling and injuring themselves in their homes.

 

[rightwinger]

Trump is starving old people so he can pay for a wall

A big, beautiful wall. best wall ever made.....believe me

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Lol. Yes.

 

[Clementine]

'We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good': Trump budget would slash funding from program that feeds 2 million seniors

It would take only a little money from it while stopping about $2 billion in other unnecessary spending that currently helps people who don't need it. There are other sources that mostly fund the Meals on Wheels program and it would continue. The small percent that is funded by CDBG can easily come from somewhere else. There are no plans to stop the program and it will likely mean some changes in how it's funded.

 

[JakeStarkey]

dailywire?

spin job?

 

[rightwinger]

So the billionaire President cancels funding to a program that provides meals to shut ins


Tone deaf

 

[rightwinger]

'We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good': Trump budget would slash funding from program that feeds 2 million seniors

It would take only a little money from it while stopping about $2 billion in other unnecessary spending that currently helps people who don't need it. There are other sources that mostly fund the Meals on Wheels program and it would continue. The small percent that is funded by CDBG can easily come from somewhere else. There are no plans to stop the program and it will likely mean some changes in how it's funded.

Why doesn't Trump make up the difference?

 

[NYcarbineer]

The billions being cut have mostly been spent in wealthier neighborhoods, not for programs for the poor, like Meals on Wheels. The funding for that comes from other sources. Only a very small percent of spending from the CDBG. Cutting that program will not stop Meals on Wheels but will stop what looks like a slush fund. As usual, fake news is sounding false alarms because that's all they've got these days.

"The money often is not going to Meals on Wheels or even to the neediest communities. As a Reason Foundation analysis also from 2013 shows, wealthier communities get the larger chunks of the money, particularly counties that—what a coincidence!—are in proximity to Washington, D.C….Check out this audit from Riverside County, California, for their CDBG expenditures for 2016, and there's neither a meal nor a wheel to be found. Of the $761,744 the county received, nearly all of it went to improve a playground and the sidewalks of a single local elementary school. And note that the reason they were audited by Housing and Urban Development was because they hadn't provided proper documentation of their expenses.

Meals on Wheels does get some money from the CDGB. But the vast majority of its funding comes from elsewhere, and as even the leftists over at Snopes state, “the effect of CDBG cuts on local Meals on Wheels groups is uncertain.” Only 3 percent of the Meals on Wheels budget nationally comes from the federal government at all, and only a portion of that comes from the CDBG. Walter Olson of the Cato Institute explains that 35 percent of federal funding for Meals on Wheels comes from the Older Americans Act, not the CDBG; no cuts have been contemplated to that program yet.

So, Trump isn’t killing Meals on Wheels."

FAKE NEWS: Did Trump Just Kill Meals On Wheels? Not Even Close.

Your source is a fake news site.

 

[JoeMoma]

Why? Why did Trump take away my dinner?

Because Republicans are assholes mom

That daughter needs to get off her ass and provide her mom with dinner!

 

[Valerie]

It would take only a little money from it while stopping about $2 billion in other unnecessary spending that currently helps people who don't need it. There are other sources that mostly fund the Meals on Wheels program and it would continue. The small percent that is funded by CDBG can easily come from somewhere else. There are no plans to stop the program and it will likely mean some changes in how it's funded.

the savings in meals on wheels alone pays for the rest of what you claim to be unnecessary...

 

[Eaglewings]

The billions being cut have mostly been spent in wealthier neighborhoods, not for programs for the poor, like Meals on Wheels. The funding for that comes from other sources. Only a very small percent of spending from the CDBG. Cutting that program will not stop Meals on Wheels but will stop what looks like a slush fund. As usual, fake news is sounding false alarms because that's all they've got these days.

"The money often is not going to Meals on Wheels or even to the neediest communities. As a Reason Foundation analysis also from 2013 shows, wealthier communities get the larger chunks of the money, particularly counties that—what a coincidence!—are in proximity to Washington, D.C….Check out this audit from Riverside County, California, for their CDBG expenditures for 2016, and there's neither a meal nor a wheel to be found. Of the $761,744 the county received, nearly all of it went to improve a playground and the sidewalks of a single local elementary school. And note that the reason they were audited by Housing and Urban Development was because they hadn't provided proper documentation of their expenses.

Meals on Wheels does get some money from the CDGB. But the vast majority of its funding comes from elsewhere, and as even the leftists over at Snopes state, “the effect of CDBG cuts on local Meals on Wheels groups is uncertain.” Only 3 percent of the Meals on Wheels budget nationally comes from the federal government at all, and only a portion of that comes from the CDBG. Walter Olson of the Cato Institute explains that 35 percent of federal funding for Meals on Wheels comes from the Older Americans Act, not the CDBG; no cuts have been contemplated to that program yet.

So, Trump isn’t killing Meals on Wheels."

FAKE NEWS: Did Trump Just Kill Meals On Wheels? Not Even Close.

WHAT'S TRUE


The Trump administration released a blueprint budget that would eliminate funding for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, which provides partial funding for local Meals on Wheels groups.



WHAT'S FALSE


The national Meals on Wheels office receives the bulk of its funding from sources other than the CDBG; the effect of CDBG cuts on local Meals on Wheels groups is uncertain.



ORIGIN
On 15 March 2017, the web site Occupy Democrats published an article about a blueprint budget released by the Trump administration under the sensationalized title “Trump Just Announced Plan to End ‘Meals on Wheels’ for Seniors.” Although the text of the article was largely accurate, the clickbait headline misled many readers into believing that President Trump had specifically proposed to eliminate Meals on Wheels, a service that delivers meals to individuals at home (primarily seniors) who are unable to purchase or prepare meals for themselves.

However, President Trump’s blueprint budget does not mention or target Meals on Wheels, nor would the adoption of that budget spell the end of Meals on Wheels. Rather, the blueprint contained a section proposing the elimination of funding for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program:

Much more @ Did President Trump Announce Plans to End the 'Meals on Wheels' Program?