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 […]
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Empowering the elderly by cutting Meals on Wheels… The compassion of the Trump budget
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, Meals on Wheels, Mick Mulvaney, military spending, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities 29 Comments
ICE raids across SE Michigan, and the launch of “Bad and Nasty” …on this weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack
This weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, which I believe will be our third under the Trump administration, will be told in two parts. First, we’ll be talking about recent raids in our community by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officials, which have resulted in the arrest of four undocumented immigrants in Ypsilanti. […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized Also tagged Angie Martell, arts funding, Bad and Nasty, Bad Hombres and Nasty Women, Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, Holly Hughes, Homeland Security, immigration, immigration law, Immigration Law Enforcement Act, Jerry Clayton, law, Lois Weaver, Manny Lagunes, Margo Schlanger, Mary Jo Watts, NEA Four, Not My President's Day, performance art, Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, WICIR, William Lopez, Women's One World, WOW Cafe 2 Comments
We should have stopped Betsy DeVos when we had the chance
On behalf of the people of Michigan, I apologize… Not only were we one of three states credited with making Donald Trump, the least qualified presidential candidate in American history, our President-elect, but, as it turns out, we might also be responsible for ending public education as we know it. You see, we, the people […]
Posted in Church and State, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Detroit, Education, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged Acton Institute, Amway, Betsy DeVos, child labor, dismantling of public education, Donald Trump, education reform, HB 4052, Lily Eskelsen GarcĂa, literacy, Michelle Rhee, minimum wage, MLM, multi-level marketing, National Education Association, Newt Gingrich, opportunity gap, privatization, public education, pyramid schemes, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, right-to-work, school vouchers, schools of choice, Secretary of Education, The Act to Enhance Access to the Workplace for Minors, threats to public education, virtual charters 102 Comments