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Empowering the elderly by cutting Meals on Wheels… The compassion of the Trump budget

By Mark | March 16, 2017

As promised, Trump unveiled his budget today, and I think it’s safe to say that it was far worse than most of us imagined. The President’s budget, if passed into law, would, among other things, cut the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency by 30%, completely eliminating 50 programs and 3,200 positions, and entirely cut […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alison Foreman, budget cuts, CNN, Community Block Grants, compassion, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, cruelty, defense spending, Donald Trump, elder care, elderly, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal budget, Jake Tapper, Mick Mulvaney, military spending, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NEA | 29 Comments

Putting aside the insanity for a little optimism for a change

By Mark | March 8, 2010

I’m struggling with what to write about tonight, as I’ve just been made aware of two equally good stories. On one hand we’ve got Glenn Beck, who, determined to push the insanity throttle even further into the red, recently encouraged his followers to leave their churches if they didn’t immediately abandon the mission of “social […]