OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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Help!I'maRock! said:
Mother Jones explains Meals on Wheels. Narrative busted.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/meals
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Sorta but not really...From what I understand it really depends on the community and how MOW is funded. Nationally, typically ~85% of their budget is private funding but some community MOW programs and their like do rely on the CDBG funding, especially the matching aspect that facilitates private fund raising.

However, the more important take-away is what type of things are funded by CDBG? The majority goes to providing housing to low income residents but there are a host of beneficial services and efforts that receive direct and matching funding from CDBG in both urban and rural communities. Cutting CDBG program out also cuts the matching funds they motivate so it's an even larger impact than the Federal budget number.

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015...ent-block-grants-they-ain-t-just-for-housing/

CDBG Funded Public Services—FY2013 (by number of persons benefitting)
Public services (gen’l) 4,634,348
Homeless/AIDS patients programs 483,439
Senior services 1,028,066
Services for the disabled 81,000
Legal services 41,481
Youth services 940,051
Transportation services 330,569
Battered and abused spouses 129,587
Employment training 71,047
Crime awareness/prevention 40,047
Fair housing activities 93,072
Child care services 59,324
Health services 511,277
Abused and neglected children 51,562
Mental health services 80,114
Subsistence payments 32,326
Food banks 1,116,542
Other public service activities 71,636

I think most people would agree these are some pretty beneficial social services for low income & impoverished people and this move is going to send a lot of agencies & NPOs scrambling to replace funding if they want to continue providing these services. Edit: The debate should be about are CDBGs the most effective way to fund these services but we're not going to have that; we're just going to cut it.
 
PunkKitty said:
We will be strong again. Strong like bull.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ell-you-why/?tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.364d582d1fe8
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That op-ed was so good even the administration posted it before they realized it was satire

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/03/17/how-the-white-house-made-me-real-news/
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(Fareed Zakaria talking about Dump) "He has spent his whole life bulls**tting," Zakaria said. "He has succeeded by bulls**tting. He has gotten the presidency by bulls**tting. It's very hard to tell somebody at that point that bulls**t doesn't work. Because look at the results. He sees something, he doesn't particularly care if it's true or not, he just put it out there."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/18/politics/zakaria-wiretap-trump-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+CNN+-+Top+Stories)

i like this guy. maybe some DNC folks should start talking to him about 2020. stands up and tell it like it is.
 
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