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That “Trump kills Meals on Wheels” story didn’t hold up for long
hotair.com ^ | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 03/19/2017 6:46:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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To: nuconvert
"I heard the other day that only 3% of their funding comes from the gov’t."

I heard that 3% comes from CDBG, and about 35% comes from some other federal program.
21 posted on 03/19/2017 7:32:45 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: GOPJ
...Bait and switch

No different that a politician being "for the people" and giving a small donation when the cameras are on, and then shoveling $$ out the back door to his buddies and relatives.

Wish I could think of a couple of good examples ...

22 posted on 03/19/2017 7:39:00 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: I want the USA back

The democrats are going to paint Trump as evil and killing old people and burning orphanages down.
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It got GHWB out.

I remember him sitting there with that grin - like an OLD deer in the headlights - when asked why he wouldn’t ‘defend’ himself about the same accusations, saying

The American people are smart enough to not believe those lies (OR something in that range).


23 posted on 03/19/2017 7:43:23 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)" "Brain cells come and brain cells go, But FAT cells live forever." Ducky)
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Unfortunately it ran big and a LOT of people believe Trump wanted to cut meals on wheels. It will hurt part of his base a lot of seniors use mow. It’s not just the food for a lot seniors it is the only human contact they have on a regular basis.


24 posted on 03/19/2017 7:45:21 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: RoosterRedux

Anyone who would let an elderly neighbor starve is a beast anyway. Decent people wouldn’t let that happen. They’d at least take up a collection from neighbors or the town and organize a way to get food a senior who can’t drive and doesn’t have much mobility but who wants to stay in their own home.


25 posted on 03/19/2017 8:01:50 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Steve_Seattle
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.

Worth repeating. Proof that "where's there a will, there's a way" to get back to basics, at least in this small and obvious case, to reducing the Federal Government's engaging in extra-Constitutional spending and responsibility.

26 posted on 03/19/2017 8:14:32 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: RoosterRedux

The story doesn’t have to “hold up”. It was repeated, again, by Chris Wallace just now on FNS, to show how the Trump budget was causing millions of deserving elderly to starve. It’s proof of the Goering/Hitler strategy of repeating a big enough lie often enough to become true.


27 posted on 03/19/2017 8:34:05 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I think some younger folks will start to realize that family is important. In a normal, stable family setting the elderly are respected and taken care of, fed, clothed and housed in the best conditions the family can provide, not the government, the family.


28 posted on 03/19/2017 8:48:39 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Yes, I am voted for Donald Trump.)
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“Unfortunately it ran big and a LOT of people believe Trump wanted to cut meals on wheels. “

But don’t you think when “those who thought they were going to be affected” see that the service continues, they will figure out that it was just another liberal lie?
And that will serve to reinforce their idea that Trump is doing the right thing?


29 posted on 03/19/2017 8:49:59 AM PDT by vette6387
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“It was repeated, again, by Chris Wallace just now on FNS”

Who watches that obnoxious dick? Fox news has a dwindling list of “watchable” anchors.


30 posted on 03/19/2017 8:52:20 AM PDT by vette6387
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And with no retractions...mission accomplished.

Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday was pushing the "Trump's cutting Meals on Wheels" story this morning. After saying he was intimately familiar with the budget process, dumbass Paul Ryan couldn't even push back on Wallace to tell him "Meals on Wheels" isn't a FedGov program!

With dumbasses like Paul Ryan, who needs the Democrats?!

31 posted on 03/19/2017 8:55:34 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: vette6387

Yes when the recipients see mow hasn’t been touched they will know it wasn’t true. But more then a few will continue to believe mean Mr. Trump tried to defund it. This is the kind of BS MSM pulls so that’s why Trump needs to keep tweeting.


32 posted on 03/19/2017 9:11:58 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: RoosterRedux

Bookmark


33 posted on 03/19/2017 9:46:46 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: DAC21
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.

A Gordian knot.

The person has to get up to answer the door when they deliver so they were already facing the risk of a fall.
Some of them even have to go out to the driveway or road as the drivers are too obese to exit the delivery vehicle.
They honk the horn and the Pavlov effect occurs.

34 posted on 03/19/2017 10:03:38 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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At work about 2/3rds are liberal, and a few of them spout this stuff all day long - “Trump killed meals on wheels” is just the latest of a long string of fake news headlines they claim are truth. Amazing how brainwashed they are.


35 posted on 03/19/2017 11:45:41 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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