vansprinkle said:
Why does the Fed Gov have anything to do with something that should be handled at the local level?
vansprinkle said:
Why does the Fed Gov have anything to do with something that should be handled at the local level?
Maroon Elephant said:
I am reading everywhere that Trump has essentially crippled this program by cutting funding somehow. What is the story here?
No.ts5641 said:
Does the government need to be funding this? Seems like it's a charitable organization and should get it's funds from fund-raising and philanthropy.
If you lower taxes and put more money in people's pockets, they're more likely to give to charitable causes.FCBlitz said:
Good night….does everything has to come from the government?
Cut the program, cut the government completely the heck out of it…..good samartans will line up to fill that gap. Yep. So what if a few folks go hungry for a week or so. The service will re establish and will begin. To provide again.
Trick - down!ts5641 said:If you lower taxes and put more money in people's pockets, they're more likely to give to charitable causes.FCBlitz said:
Good night….does everything has to come from the government?
Cut the program, cut the government completely the heck out of it…..good samartans will line up to fill that gap. Yep. So what if a few folks go hungry for a week or so. The service will re establish and will begin. To provide again.
Not everybody expects other people to pay for what they want.BigFred said:Trick - down!ts5641 said:If you lower taxes and put more money in people's pockets, they're more likely to give to charitable causes.FCBlitz said:
Good night….does everything has to come from the government?
Cut the program, cut the government completely the heck out of it…..good samartans will line up to fill that gap. Yep. So what if a few folks go hungry for a week or so. The service will re establish and will begin. To provide again.
Sq 17 said:Maroon Elephant said:
I am reading everywhere that Trump has essentially crippled this program by cutting funding somehow. What is the story here?
Not much of a story just one of the random things Govt does usually with the help of a local non-profit in small towns it's usually run by the church ladies at one of their fellowship halls with a full industrial kitchen and those gals ain't getting rich doing it.
My wife's grandparents were on it the last ten years they were alive. Only one of their children still lived in town and She worked in Waco( about 30 minutes away) . Lilly enjoyed having two meals delivered for lunch she was in her late 80's and her husband was in his 90's. My mother in law would check in on them and make them dinner after work. Meals on Wheels helped them stay in their home and the people bringing the meals were locals and acquaintances
Even if people are willing to donate their time the food and the gasoline to make it happen is probably not in a small town church's budget.
Meals on Wheels put out a statement concerning loss of funding after passage of the CR.Maroon Elephant said:
I am reading everywhere that Trump has essentially crippled this program by cutting funding somehow. What is the story here?
vansprinkle said:
Why does the Fed Gov have anything to do with something that should be handled at the local level?
Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:
On the list of things that I think should be canceled, government funding of Meals on Wheels is at the very, very bottom.
No doubt.LOYAL AG said:Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:
On the list of things that I think should be canceled, government funding of Meals on Wheels is at the very, very bottom.
As I tried to say I think we can generally agree on this. But this isn't a surgical operation, the size and scope of the federal budget make that impossible. We're going to see good tossed out with bad. Blame 60 years of unfettered growth in the scope of government not the first guy in 40 years to try and reign it all in.
ts5641 said:If you lower taxes and put more money in people's pockets, they're more likely to give to charitable causes.FCBlitz said:
Good night….does everything has to come from the government?
Cut the program, cut the government completely the heck out of it…..good samartans will line up to fill that gap. Yep. So what if a few folks go hungry for a week or so. The service will re establish and will begin. To provide again.
AJ02 said:
Was going to be my question. Why is this a federal function?
All the people over the age of 55 would die of starvation AND they would be denied their medical care AND their Social Security checks!redcrayon said:
So, if this program didn't exist, the family wouldn't have stepped in to help keep them fed and at home?
Sad fact, not all families care about their elders.redcrayon said:
So, if this program didn't exist, the family wouldn't have stepped in to help keep them fed and at home?
$37 Trillion Debt agrees.GenericAggie said:vansprinkle said:
Why does the Fed Gov have anything to do with something that should be handled at the local level?
I wonder how much money the federal government funds to states. I agree with your question. Why are we paying federal taxes that then get distributed back, through bureaucracy to the states we live. The overhead and inefficiency sounds less than ideal.
Reality check: No matter how little a family may care for their elders, it is still more than any government bureaucracy.doubledog said:Sad fact, not all families care about their elders.redcrayon said:
So, if this program didn't exist, the family wouldn't have stepped in to help keep them fed and at home?
The government bureaucracy isn't feeding the family. They're just paying for it.Phatbob said:Reality check: No matter how little a family may care for their elders, it is still more than any government bureaucracy.doubledog said:Sad fact, not all families care about their elders.redcrayon said:
So, if this program didn't exist, the family wouldn't have stepped in to help keep them fed and at home?
GenericAggie said:vansprinkle said:
Why does the Fed Gov have anything to do with something that should be handled at the local level?
I wonder how much money the federal government funds to states. I agree with your question. Why are we paying federal taxes that then get distributed back, through bureaucracy to the states we live. The overhead and inefficiency sounds less than ideal.
Ahh, so they won't starve, then. Good.Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:The government bureaucracy isn't feeding the family. They're just paying for it.Phatbob said:Reality check: No matter how little a family may care for their elders, it is still more than any government bureaucracy.doubledog said:Sad fact, not all families care about their elders.redcrayon said:
So, if this program didn't exist, the family wouldn't have stepped in to help keep them fed and at home?
Maybe. Yet again, this is probably the last thing I care about being funded by the Federal Government.Phatbob said:Ahh, so they won't starve, then. Good.Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:The government bureaucracy isn't feeding the family. They're just paying for it.Phatbob said:Reality check: No matter how little a family may care for their elders, it is still more than any government bureaucracy.doubledog said:Sad fact, not all families care about their elders.redcrayon said:
So, if this program didn't exist, the family wouldn't have stepped in to help keep them fed and at home?
When people care, they make the necessary happen, and funding can be found that is NOT from an uncaring bureaucracy. Benefits come from that via process improvements and societal responsibility awareness that are casualties of a government funded system.
There is a non-zero amount of that callousness of family towards their elders that exists because they feel like it is societies job to care for them, not their own. Continuing to support that is a codependent behavior.
