"Mr. Trump’s budget says that the unemployment insurance benefits should be taken into account when disability insurance benefits are awarded."
Just read that over for a moment. Trump figures that getting one "handout" is enough. Never mind that the living conditions of a disabled person are legitimately higher than an able-bodied one. It's akin to saying, 'Sorry, honey, you can't have a painkiller, you've already had a bandage.'
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From a purely constitutional standpoint, feeding the indigent is a task that belongs to state and local government. Starvation and hunger should be averted by systematic distribution of food. However, there must be a disincentive to social dysfunction, especially having children out of wedlock with no means of support. Remove the discretionary aspects from indigent sustenance, and provide food, clothing, and shelter. Dignity and individual choice are not intrinsic rights: both have to be earned.
The cruelty is the whole point. We must get this monster out of the White House while we still can.
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Another brilliant move by el trumpo
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Shame that this important article appears not on the front page of the paper, but hidden away in the middle. Americans may not care about Roger Stone, or the NH Primaries, believing that those do not impact their daily lives - and they may be right - but this will.
We keep inflating our military budget, and for what, and at whose expense? If we cannot help those in need with food, housing and healthcare, and if we do not care about libraries or the arts or public education...what exactly about America and the American way of life is worth defending?
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Food, education, and health are the building blocks of a better life. Students who aren’t hungry learn more. Workers who can get healthcare work more. College graduates earn more. The stock market might be rising, and unemployment might be low, but the building blocks of success are more and more unaffordable; working men and women face ever higher health costs, higher education costs, and higher rent. Leave it to Republicans to kick out from under kids and workers and students these building blocks to success.
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"Could"? No, it WILL create greater inequality and suffering. This great economy isn't even real for the working and middle class. Many of us are working two jobs just to make ends meet, homelessness is on the rise and many of those homeless are working. The deficit is nearly 1 trillion and is not sustainable. Cutting programs that underpin the very foundation of our society, cutting education to create a greater divide and a more uneducated, easily manipulated population, cutting programs for the elderly, for women's health, for health insurance, for hungry children. It is ignorant and damaging.
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There are no poor republicans. The rest can be starved, live
on the streets, have too many kids, get sick and then
disappear.
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@jahnay There are thousands of poor Republicans in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and many other areas across the country.
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Trump spends almost a year playing golf and costing us millions. While he cuts holes in the safety net and no ones calls him out on the hypocrisy of it all. The court of public opinion is waiting for a champion to start taking the fight to Trump. The Dems need to start being proactive instead of reactive.
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“We must remember, compassion is not always how many people we can get on a government program, but rather how many people we can help graduate out of a program and into financial independence.”
That’s easy for Ben Carson — who can’t see poor people from his perch with the high and mighty — to say. Real compassion means continuing the safety net programs but giving people a fighting chance with expanded job training, benefits to go to college, infrastructure projects that supply jobs and much more.
Just cutting programs for the disadvantaged and spouting nonsense is mean-spirited and unlikely to help anyone.
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I just helped an individual get to work and he was extremely proud to be able to do it. But you know what? He lost all his SSI and Food Stamps, so the suggestion that people need to work to maintain Food Stamps is ludicrous. However little an individual receives in benefits are lost as soon as they begin to work. The current administration is not only detached from those in need, they don't even understand policies that are in place at the moment. They don't know what they don't know, and they are running the country. Heaven help us.
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@Patten No, they just don't care. They don't care if a family starves to death.
Any Democrat running for president who isn't holding a copy of that proposed budget and hammering Trump with it does not want to win.
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@MrDeepState Fortunately, presidential budgets are generally blown off by lawmakers. However, it is a glimpse into the tiny mind of a president who understands absolutely nothing about anything.
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Many of the cost-cutting measures pitched by Mr. Trump have long been championed by Republicans who have in the past expressed concern about rising deficits.
“If Democrats are actually concerned about the deficit, they should work with Republicans on realistic approaches to get Washington’s spending under control while strengthening our safety net,” said Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee.
Nah, I do not think so.
If Republicans were really serious about the deficit, they would not have passed the $1 TRILLION tax giveaway to rich people and corporations, 85% of which went to excess dividends and stick buybacks, and not to investing an adding jobs.
Typical Republican nonsense: payy a huge tax cut, promise that it will "pay for itself" and when it does not, demand "fiscal responsibility" by cutting spending for programs that help real human beings. But then they will tell you that "corporations are people too."
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For the GOP that's a feature, not a bug.
Yet thousands of poor people who utilize these government programs will vote for Trump anyway, effectively slitting their own economic throats.
And millions of evangelical Christians will vote for for Trump despite both him and his government acting in ways that are pretty much the direct opposite of what Jesus would do.
Not sure whether it's mass idiocy or hypocrisy, or a combination of both.
Go figure...
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No mention of slashing any government subsidy payments to Big Business, e.g. Oil & Gas, Mining, Agribusiness, Telecommunications, et al - I guess because there AREN'T ANY proposed cuts to corporate welfare. And the rich say: Give us the REST.
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Why is this very important story run below the fold? These are issues of great import to many Americans, and they should be informed.
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Tax cuts for the wealthy and service/payment cuts for the poor, the elderly and the disabled. November can't come soon enough. Let's be rid of trump, he is like a parasite.
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Under Trump, we have record employment -- especially for minorities. It's better to have a job than welfare.
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@Grace Unless it's a gig job, which you need three of just to pay the bills.
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We do NOT need more nuclear weapons at the loss of funds needed to help people who really are in need of assistance...and that includes mothers with children who might find it difficult to work & pay for childcare.
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Democratic presidential candidates, it's time to pay attention to this and make your pitch against it. I will vote for any of the Dems once the candidate is chosen. Until then, I want to see how they intend to help stand up to these draconian moves on the part of the Republicans and their oligarch in chief, Trump. Some, like Sanders, Warren, and Klobuchar actually have clout in the Senate. Let's see them fight!
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This result is exactly what conservative Republicans have been hoping and praying and contributing for. So very sad on so many existential and moral levels.
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