Occupy Democrats reports that Trump Just Announced Plan To End Funding For ‘Meals On Wheels’ For Seniors

Here is a quote from the article, which really highlights the impact that this decision is going to have:

One popular program facing elimination is “Meals On Wheels,” which uses federal funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to mobilize volunteers, businesses and donors to provide nutrition to thousands of senior citizens on a daily basis. It supports over 5,000 community-based organizations across America, reaching people in both urban and rural areas.”

And this:

Meals On Wheels alone costs about $3 million a year, which is the cost of just one trip to Trump’s “winter White House.”

How does it even make sense?  The federal government is going to save a measly $3,000,000 at the expense of our elderly.  How can Trump be so blind to the misery he is inflicting?  Let’s do the math:

There are 5,000 Meals On Wheels chapters, so: $3,000,000 / 5,000  = $600

Wait.  So we are talking about reducing funding for each community-based Meals on Wheels chapter by $600 per year.  Quick search, first Meals On Wheels financials I found are for Mercer Count, NJ.  Revenue for 2015: $468,421.  It’s hard for me to imagine that they are going out of business for want of $600.  Which, by the way, is less than the cost of just one vacation of your own.

If you are concerned that Meals On Wheels is going to collapse, write a $600 check to your local Meals On Wheels chapter.  Or just dig into your pocket and send them $50 (dinner with a date) to cover one month, and get 11 of your friends to do the same.  Ask every working person in your community to pitch in $0.50 (I don’t even know what you can buy for $0.50) per year, and Meals On Wheels would be flooded with cash.  Problem solved.

By the way – Meals on Wheels is a community-based organization which depends on volunteers to deliver food to the elderly.  I highly recommend that you become a volunteer.  It will help the organization a lot more than those 600 crummy dollars they are losing.