The administration is defending some of its budget cuts, including some that directly impact programs like “Meals on Wheels,” and job training programs. The White House Budget Director, Mick Mulvaney says “we can’t spend money on programs just because they sound good. We can’t defend money on programs that cannot show that they deliver what they say they will deliver.”
Mulvaney cited after school programs which feed kids; the philosophy is that if children are able to eat, they will do better in school. Mulvaney says there is no evidence that the program is working
We are trying to focus on the recipients of the money and those on whom the money is spent. He says the administration is being compassionate by taking the taxpayers seriously. What he is not saying is what the elderly, for example, who receive meals, are supposed to do. Where is the compassion for them?
Money will be taken from American tax payers to build “the wall.” Billions of dollars will be collected and spent to build new detention facilities.
Compassion.
What are the children, the poor, the elderly supposed to do?
Mulvaney seems to think that states will take care of their own. They will receive community development block grants (CDBG) and that they will find a way to take care of “the least of these.”
But that seems unlikely. States looked to the federal government in the first place because the states were not able to take care of them.
So, the question is, who is the recipient of this “compassion?”
It seems like the compassion is being offered to big corporations. It seems that there is a great amount of time and energy being paid to protect the very rich, at the expense of the poor. The administration seems not to care that under the proposed new health care act, literally millions of Americans will no longer have access to to heath care.
They say that the goal is not to make sure more people have access to health care. The goal is to save money.
I would add that the larger goal is to make sure insurance companies are able to make big money. The health and health needs of the people be damned.
Is this compassion?
I guess I am confused.
On second thought, I am not.
I can see clearly, and what I see is a group of people who do not care about those who are striving to survive in this country which has little toleration for the them.
It is disgusting. And scary.
A candid observation.
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