Posted on 03/19/2017 6:46:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
It was the biggest, juiciest story of the week, complete with everything that the mainstream media loves to latch onto. “Trump budget kills Meals on Wheels program!” New jobs would soon be coming available for people willing to push handcarts through towns and cities across the nation, collecting the bodies of starving senior citizens who had fallen victim to the Trump presidency. Heck, I even fell for it myself. After seeing it blasted across social media by so many news outlets it was easy to do. Then came the much less widely reported wrinkle to the story: it wasn’t true.
Walter Olson at National Review did the work that most of the rest of us apparently forgot about and dug into the details. He explains how Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) actually work and why they aren’t as closely tied to Meals on Wheels as the press (or pork barrel loving politicians) would have you believe.
So where do the federal block grant programs come in? Well, they give states and localities a lot of discretion on where to allocate the money. One option is to add money to supplement Meals on Wheels funding. Some do use it for that purpose.But as Scott Shackford makes clear in his new piece for Reason, that isn’t what CDBG is mostly about. CDBG funds regularly go into pork-barrel and business-subsidy schemes with a cronyish flavor. That’s why the program has been a prime target for budget-cutters for decades, in administration after administration.
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Ping.
Regardless—Meals on Wheels is not a function of the federal government.
And with no retractions...mission accomplished.
I heard the other day that only 3% of their funding comes from the gov’t.
Yup. Fake news strikes again!
In short this is typical 'bait and switch'... the Meals on Wheels program is window dressing for the ugly truth - the BIG MONEY is spend on liberal graft and few pennies go to worth while programs.
My boss is on the local board for this program. They get most, if not all their money locally, and it is not means tested. He says that if someone requests it, they get it.
The newsliars are shameless.
In my county they have an old folks center that makes food. It they want it they can get their ass on the bus that will come to their door and take them to the cafeteria. They’ll even take handicapped.
The newest Libertard wrinkle is that if Trump kills meals on wheels Seniors will have to make their own food. Therefore they will have to get off the couch which will result in thousands of more fall down hip injuries. The resulting medical bills will far outpace the costs of meals on wheels cuts.
The democrats are going to paint Trump as evil and killing old people and burning orphanages down. The brain dead public is too stupid to know the difference.
That is probably correct as Kroger provides plenty as does Publix. I just a quick search and in one are Kroger partnered with Feedmore and provided 748,000 plus meals.
That is probably correct as Kroger provides plenty as does Publix. I just a quick search and in one are Kroger partnered with Feedmore and provided 748,000 plus meals.
30 seconds after trumps proposed budget ads started up on media a out the meals program AND the national parks would be desimated. We are never going to see a balanced budget again and forget any debt reduction. Wait till interest rates return to their historic average and there is no room in the budget for any defense spending. While guns and ammo prices are in recess now load up!
CDBG sprinkles a few dollars to organizations like Meals on Wheels and then claims the Block Grants support well-known and well-liked organizations.
Years ago I witnessed the same thing in the Presbyterian Church USA. The local church would sprinkle a few dollars to a well-known and well-liked organization and bring them to the church to tell the pew sitters about the great work they were doing.
But what the Presbyterian Church USA was not doing is bringing one of their radical leftist missionaries who was getting the bulk of the missions money.
So sorry to hear this. It’s been some time ago since he posted. NYTexan will be missed. Prayers for him and his family.
The story about Meals on Wheels’ funding being cut was probably the best thing that ever happened to them; they reported a 500% increase in donations.
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