I wonder how many Meals on Wheels could be delivered for $183 million?

Immediately after the election, Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller explained that Melania would be staying in New York because there as "obviously a sensitivity to pulling out a 10-year-old in the middle of the school year".

We have since learned that the cost of security for Melania and Barron to emain at Trump Tower is $183 illion/year. There is also no indication that they will actually move to DC this summer. So in essence the Federal government is giving the Trump family a $183 million annual voucher so Barron can attend the elite private prep school of his choice.

Meanwhile, we learned last night that Trump's budget would completely eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA, with an annual budget of only $148 million, is able to provide seed money for arts programming in literally every Congressional district in the country.

So, on the one hand, you have a $183 million school voucher for a single 10-year-old at an elite private school. On the other hand, you have a program that impacts arts and cultural programming throughout the entire nation.

Then there's the Meals on Wheels issue. Let's starve the elderly with no other means to obtain food so that one kid can attend an elite school.

WTF 

You voted for him - so ENJOY!!!!!! 

You voted for him


What are you talking about?? No, I did not. 

the cost of security for Melania and Barron to remain at Trump Tower is $183 million/year.

Talk about an entitlement program. 

Then there's the Meals on Wheels issue. Let's starve the elderly with no other means to obtain food so that one kid can attend an elite school.

WTF?

LMFAO, federal funding is %3.3 of Meals on Wheels budget. 

What have you ever done to personally help the disadvantaged? Or is it someone else problem? 

federal funding is %3.3 of Meals on Wheels budget

If it's such a paltry amount, why cut it at all? We're talking about helping elderly people with food, and a program run mostly by volunteers. 

MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA STATEMENT ON BUDGET BLUEPRINT

Mar 16, 2017
March 16, 2017 ? Today, the President sent his Budget Blueprint, also known as the ?skinny budget,? to Congress with a plan to release further details in the coming months. This blueprint focuses on discretionary spending levels for Fiscal Year 2018, and makes investments in defense programs, paid for through deep cuts to non-defense discretionary (NDD) programs, such as Meals on Wheels.

The portions of the President?s Budget that have been released so far call for the elimination of a number of federal programs, including the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), on which some local Meals on Wheels programs rely to deliver nutritious meals, safety checks and friendly visits to our nation?s most vulnerable seniors.

Details on our network?s primary source of funding, the Older Americans Act, which has supported senior nutrition programs for 45 years, have not yet been released. This vital Act provides 35% of the total funding for Meals on Wheels (both congregate and home-delivered programs) nationally. With a stated 17.9% cut to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget, however, it is difficult to imagine a scenario in which these critical services would not be significantly and negatively impacted if enacted into law.

?The problem with a skinny budget is it is lean on details. So, while we don?t know the exact impact yet, cuts of any kind to these highly successful and leveraged programs would be a devastating blow to our ability to provide much-needed care for millions of vulnerable seniors in America, which in turn saves billions of dollars in reduced healthcare expenses? said Ellie Hollander, President and CEO Meals on Wheels America.

The need is growing rapidly, and federal funding has not kept pace. The network is already serving 23 million fewer meals now than in 2005, and waiting lists are mounting in every state. At a time when increased funding is needed, we fear that the millions of seniors who rely on us every day for a nutritious meal, safety check and visit from a volunteer will be left behind.

This successful public-private partnership, for which every federal dollar is matched with about three dollars from other sources, enables at-risk seniors to stay out of more expensive healthcare settings and remain more healthy, safe and independent in their own homes, where they want to be. After all, we can provide a senior with Meals on Wheels for an entire year for roughly the same cost of an average one-day stay in the hospital or ten days in a nursing home. 

In general I don't have any issue, and support shrinking the government. I also think almost any organization can take a 10% cut, and become more efficient. Including social programs like meals on wheels.

What concerns me is the significant increase in defense spending to corporations. This along with other things the administration is doing points to an administration friendly to the elite and un sympathetic to the have nots. 

More fake news. Do a little research before you regurgitate the liberal news. 

we can provide a senior with Meals on Wheels for an entire year for roughly the same cost of an average one-day stay in the hospital or ten days in a nursing home.

This is a very cost effective program. It makes no sense to cut it. If anything funding should be increased as the population ages. SCROTUS can make the uuuge sacrifice and give up a couple of weekends in Florida. Problem solved. 

More fake news. Do a little research before you regurgitate the liberal news.

That is the official statement from meals on wheels from their website. Not a media source. Just FYI 

I never could understand why the price tag of electing president Trump never came up during the elections. I for one knew it would be costly but I don't carry an sort of influence. There is a budget and that budget shouldn't be increased to where it creates a burden on the tax payer. If you want to be president your new title as a public servant, your expenditures will not be in excess of a budget that places a burden on the tax payers. 

Dang, Needsleep. That makes entirely too much sense.

I'll share my jar of Vaselne with you. It's gonna be needed. 

Dang, Needsleep. That makes entirely too much sense.

I'll share my jar of Vaselne with you. It's gonna be needed. Or I'll buy you your own jar. 

That is the official statement from meals on wheels from their website. Not a media source. Just FYI?

Nowhere in Trump's budget is meals on wheels targeted. It is up to the states to distribute the funds from the block grants. 

Don't think I said any where that it did. But we can say that about all kinds of things in this proposal which is thin on detail. Details don't seem to be this administrations thing.

I have voted republican my whole life with 2 exceptions. I have no issue as I said above with budget cuts, and a smaller government. But from what I can tell so far this budget just moves spending from social programs to defense contract spending. This just taking from the poor to give to the rich. 

It is up to the states to distribute the funds from the block grants

hmmm...the budget proposes cutting the block grants. Also cuts to the Dept of Human Services. Both of these are funding sources for Meals on Wheels.

SCROTUS wants to shift funding to the military. If we're not willing to spend a drop in the bucket to help some of our own elderly citizens, wth are we fighting for? 

If we're not willing to spend a drop in the bucket to help some of our own elderly citizens, wth are we fighting for??


What's stopping you from helping locally? Don't most churches perform this function already? 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-how-much-it-costs-meals-on-wheels-to-feed-one-elderly-person-for-a-year-2017-03-16 

If we're not willing to spend a drop in the bucket to help some of our own elderly citizens, wth are we fighting for?

More hysterics. The program doesn't work. 

What have you ever done to personally help the disadvantaged? Or is it someone else problem?


It's all our problems unles you are like you and don't give a dam about anyone else. I volunteer regularly at the food bank BTFW. 

I volunteer regularly at the food bank BTFW.

Suuuurrre you do. Got your spare bedrooms full of Syrian refugees too, I'm sure. 

More hysterics. The program doesn't work.


Tell that to all the elderly that are fed daily. 

Tell that to all the elderly that are fed daily

Try reading this:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/18/meal-on-wheels-trump-budget-proposal-cuts/99308928/ 

I personally don't like people bashing Barron. Nor did I like anyone bashing the former presidents children. All of the former presidents kids went to private schools. You had double the cost with 2 kids for the last 8 years. I haven't seen any where the break down cost the tax payers are are incurring for the education of presidents son. If you are in clandestine service or an expat for the Feds there are schooling stipends. Why wouldn't the president have the same? I just don't like the additional costs incurred in order to Guard residences that are difficult to protect.