CBS had a segment about Meals on Wheels being ended in the Trump budget. It's not! What was ended was Community Block Granta, which gives little money to MOW. Most MOW comes from private donations and programs for the elderly. Trump wants to eliminate wasteful spending the Dems want. Trump is championing the poor, middle class, military and retired people. I am very disappointed in CBS.

CNN had the MOW CEO on yesterday with same fake news. It pays to educate yourself.

Biased, leftist bullshit and lies from CBS (or any other Big Media outlet) comes as absolutely no surprise to me. I haven't watched network news in years.

Fake news on CBS this morning every morning.

Kill your television.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
Kill your television.

Not gonna kill "the messenger".

I heard Donald Trump hates old people and wants them to starve.

Yet, no story about Donna Brazile? Wow, color me shocked!

Thanks a lot MSM.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...n-wheels-budget.html

Despite outrage over cuts, federal funds are fraction of Meals on Wheels budget

President Trump's proposed cuts to the popular "Meals on Wheels" program have prompted dire warnings -- but they appear to ignore the fact that only a fraction of the program's budget comes from the government.

A glance at the program's 2015 financial statement shows the program brought in just over $7.5 million in funding that year, mainly from corporate and foundation grants making up $5.15 million.

Government grants made up just $248,347 of the funding – or 3.3 percent of total funds.

Still, Trump's call to cut the program fed into the outrage Thursday over a multitude of reductions that the president has in store. Trump's budget blueprint calls to slash programs within the State Department and Environmental Protection Agency, among others, in order to pump more money into defense.

Proposed cuts to the federal housing department include abolishing the Community Development Block Grant – a portion of which goes to fund the program delivering meals to the homebound elderly.

While Trump's proposal is likely to be debated and significantly altered by Congress, media voices quickly pounced on "Meals on Wheels" as a central storyline to Trump’s budget.

“Late Night” host Seth Meyers accused Trump of being “dead inside.”

“Meals on Wheels?!” he asked rhetorically. “How dead inside do you have to be to not want old people to get food? Your heart is so small it makes your tiny hands look like catcher’s mitts.”

Twitter erupted with questions about Trump's mental state for his supposed desire to starve the elderly.


CNN’s Jim Acosta asked Budget Director Mick Mulvaney at the White House press briefing Thursday if his was a “hard-hearted budget.” When Mulvaney responded that he actually thought it was a compassionate budget, Acosta countered: “To cut programs that help the elderly and kids?”

Mulvaney also angered supporters of the program by suggesting it wasn't showing results.

"Meals on Wheels sounds great ... but to take the federal money and give it to the states and say, look, we want to give you money for programs that don't work -- I can't defend that anymore," he said. "We're $20 trillion in debt."

The controversy is similar to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s proposed budget cuts to the Public Broadcasting Service, which quickly devolved into a claim Romney wanted to kill off popular Sesame Street character Big Bird.

This accusation has now been leveled at Trump, who has also proposed nixing funds to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, by which PBS gets tax money -- though Big Bird is currently nesting along with Cookie Monster and Elmo at the privately owned HBO.

Ahhhhhh......those pesky little facts, eh 6guns??

The gravy train is over. We can't keep spending our great-great-grandchildren's money.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
"We're $20 trillion in debt."

This won't get as much reporting as the old tired playbook the "republicans want to starve the kids and grandma".

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Originally posted by Icabod:
The gravy train is over. We can't keep spending our great-great-grandchildren's money.

Your statement is the fact no one on the other side wants to face. The massive debt is not going away on it's own. We have to get federal spending under control. Period.
Just like our in our own homes, when we have to tighten the budget belt, there is some pain.

can't spell CBS without.... BS!

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Biased, leftist bullshit and lies from CBS (or any other Big Media outlet) comes as absolutely no surprise to me. I haven't watched network news in years.

This! X a million.

See? BS!

just about everything you see on MSM is fake

I was shocked to find that Mother Jones had called out everyone this too.
Even mentioned that Obama had cut the budget.

I don't recall this outrage in the media when Obama made budget cuts.

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I don't recall this outrage in the media when Obama made budget cuts.

And you won't. The right people were getting paid, despite the so called "cuts". No matter where the cuts are, the left will claim it is a "War On (insert the puppet of the moment here)"

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
I was shocked to find that Mother Jones had called out everyone this too.
Even mentioned that Obama had cut the budget.

Sounds like someone at MJ is about to be fired!

According to the mainstream news no one will have healthcare​, jobs, money, food or hope in 4 weeks.

Not exactly holding my breath